US government to ease foreign travel restrictions into the country by the beginning of the November.
On Monday, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients officially announced that the US will ease the travel restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers and they will be able to enter the US. Its government allowed foreigners from 33 countries including India.
The US ban on non-essential travel was in form since 2020, after the outbreak of Corona virus which was introduced by President Donald Trump and after him it was kept in action by President Joe Biden. The ban started from China and then expanded to, UK , Ireland , India , Brazil and South Africa.
The US government announced the list of policies which will still be required by the foreigners to travel to US, which includes:
All foreign passengers travelling to US are required to show proofs of their vaccinations and a COVID negative report taken within three days of flight before boarding. The fully vaccinated citizens would not be required to quarantine.
After the announcement the US government clarified the list of vaccines which will be accepted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is pretty much clear that they are considering a foreigner fully vaccinated only if they have received any vaccine which is authorised by WHO or any FDA- authorised jab.
India being the world’s largest producer of vaccines after the COVID outbreak, has manufactured its own two local vaccines; ‘COVAXIN’ and ‘COVISHIELD’.
Covishield is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and Covaxin is a wholly indigenous vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech.
As of now WHO has approved only seven vaccines. The only Indian vaccine which has been approved by WHO is ‘Covishield’. And so far, 16.7 crore Indians are vaccinated with ‘covishield’ while 1.9 crore with ‘covaxin’.
Covishield being the only approved vaccine by WHO will be considered and recognised by most of the nations. The new travelling policies of US will consider Indians as fully vaccinated only if they have been vaccinated with covishield.
Indian travelling to US are left with only one choice to get Covishield dabs before November.