The United States will lift the COVID-19 vaccination requirement on the 11th for federal employees and international travelers arriving by air, the White House announced Monday.
Ending the mandatory vaccine corresponds to the end of the state of emergency declared by Washington in January 2020.
The United States is officially the country that has 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 fallen by 95% and hospitalizations have fallen by almost 91%,” the North American executive explained in a statement.
He 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 commitments were put into practice .
The measures taken to contain the covid-19 pandemic, and in particular the obligation to vaccinate, have led to fierce political debates in the United States.
Source: DN
