President Joe Biden signed an executive order immediately after taking office requiring inbound passengers to provide a negative screening report for Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) before boarding the plane.
The CDC also told the media that the authorities intend to extend this rule to domestic flights after the new rules hit the road. The CDC’s director of global immigration and quarantine, Marty Cetron, said in an interview that this is being actively discussed.
Biden instructed authorities last week to propose additional public health measures for domestic travel and to consider issuing new epidemiological norms for road borders. Setron noted that authorities have found that screening platforms and capacity are growing and are a significant part of the response to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak. After discussions with airline officials, the CDC said it is considering requiring passengers to provide screening reports on domestic flights.
Some airlines, for their part, are concerned that the new norms threaten to hit the airline industry, which suffered a setback during the outbreak, again. Setron stressed that the most important thing is that this is not the Time for people to travel freely and that the public should postpone all travel until the virus can be effectively controlled and vaccination programs can be accelerated.
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