The Biden administration announced Thursday (May 20) that the U.S. will continue to enforce outbreak-related, non-essential restrictions across U.S. land borders until June 21.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Twitter, “We are working closely with Canada and Mexico,” according to CNBC. As the situation improves, it will be safe to ease that restriction.”
In the meantime, the Department of Homeland Security emphasized on Twitter that necessary trade and travel can still continue.
It is unclear from the DHS tweets whether the agency intends to ease these restrictions immediately after June 21 or simply reassess the need for them at that time. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for clarification on the issue.
On April 20, 2020, under then-President Donald Trump (Trump), the Department of Homeland Security implemented cross-border travel restrictions. A little more than a month prior to this, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan virus, New Coronavirus) had developed into an outbreak.
The announcement of the one-month extension of restrictions by the U.S. government comes as both the number of CCP virus infections and deaths in the U.S. have declined. More than 277 million doses of vaccines have been administered in the United States, and to date, 47% of the population has been vaccinated at least once.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week changed its guidance on the issue of wearing masks. It told Americans that once they are fully vaccinated, in most cases, they no longer need to wear a preventive mask.
But President Joe Biden and his health officials still warn that the United States is not completely free of the outbreak. In particular, highly contagious variants of the CCP virus, which have been seen in large numbers in other countries, have emerged in the United States.
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