The Biden Administration announced Monday that it was ending the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for international travelers, some non-citizens at a US land border, federal employees, contractors, teachers preschool and medical institutions certified by Medicare and Medicaid.
The measure will take effect at the end of May 11
, the same date that the health emergency due to the pandemic ends, indicated a White House press release.
More details about the end of the requirements will be published in the coming days, the note said.
Pharmacist Madeline Acquilano prepares a vaccine against COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital, in Connecticut, on March 3, 2021.AP
The White House stressed that the vaccination requirements had ensured the safety of workers in critical areas such as public health and education, by protecting them and the population they serve.
"The federal government successfully implemented the requirements for its workforce in a way that brought vaccinations up to 98%," the statement said.
He added that it was necessary to establish requirements for certain international travelers in order to "slow down the transmission of new variants [of the virus] entering the country and allow the health system to effectively manage health care, if faced with to an increase in cases and hospitalizations.
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The Biden Administration announced in 2021 vaccine requirements
to "promote the health and safety of people and the efficiency of the workplace, by protecting vital sectors of our economy and vulnerable population," the statement said.
The Government indicated that
since January 2021, deaths from COVID-19 have declined 95%
and hospitalizations have fallen almost 91%.
He specified that globally, deaths from COVID-19 are at their lowest point since the beginning of the pandemic.
"After a whole-of-government effort that allowed a record 270 million Americans to receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, we are in a new phase of our response" compared to when it was necessary to establish the requirements, the statement said.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of April 26, 2023, there have been 764,474,387 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, including 6,915,286 deaths reported to the organization.
The WHO specified that a total of 13,343,360,939 doses of the vaccine have been administered worldwide.