International Travelers No Long Need a Negative COVID-19 Test to Enter the US

Notably, this rule didn’t apply to land border crossings, and many other countries dropped testing requirements months ago. In some cases, travelers were leaving countries with relatively low COVID rates and needing to have a rapid negative test to get into a US with significantly higher rates.

According to the AP, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will reevaluate any testing requirement needs every 90 days and there’s a possibility a new variant may lead to a reinstatement.

As with the mask mandate, travel industry leaders have pushed the Biden administration to drop the barriers to entry to the US to help boost one of the hardest hit industries over the past two years. Lifting the testing mandate makes international travel easier during a summer travel season that’s expected to be a big rebound of visitor numbers to get closer to, or greater than, 2019 numbers.