(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) US President Joe Biden on Tuesday revoked requirements that most
international visitors to the United States be vaccinated against
COVID-19 as well as similar rules for federal employees and
contractors, trend reports citing al arabiya .
Biden's orders take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET May 12 with the
expiration of the US COVID-19 public health emergency. The Biden
administration's rules imposed in September 2021 requiring about
3.5 million federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated or
face firing or disciplinary action have not been enforced for over
a year after a series of court rulings.
The White House announced the plan last week to end the last of
the extraordinary public health restrictions first adopted in 2020
that at one point barred most of the world's population from
entering the United States.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha told
reporters on Tuesday that the administration had made a public
health determination that the vaccination requirements for foreign
visitors, federal employees and contractors“were no longer
necessary to protect Americans.”
Jha said US worker vaccine requirements led to more than 90
percent of employees getting vaccinated.“We think those
requirements saved thousands of lives but we're at a different
place.”
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