The United States will lift the obligation to vaccinate federal employees and international travelers arriving by air against Covid-19 on the 11th, the White House announced Monday.
Ending mandatory vaccination corresponds to the end of the state of health emergency decreed by Washington in January 2020.
The United States is officially the country that paid the highest price for the pandemic, with more than a million deaths.
Since January 2021, that is, since the inauguration of President Joe Biden, “deaths from Covid-19 have decreased by 95% and hospitalizations by almost 91%,” explains the North American executive in a statement.
It adds that, at a time when 270 million Americans have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, the country is no longer “at the same stage of response to the pandemic” as when those obligations were put into practice. . .
The measures adopted to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, and in particular the obligation to vaccinate, have given rise to intense political debates in the United States.
Source: TSF
