the vaccination requirement to enter the United States will be lifted on May 11

The United States will lift the obligation to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on the evening of May 11, which concerns federal civil servants and international travelers arriving by air, the White House announced on Monday May 1. This lifting of the vaccination obligation corresponds to the end of the state of health emergency declared by Washington, at the beginning of 2020.

The United States is officially the country that has paid the heaviest price for the pandemic, with more than a million deaths. Since January 2021, that is to say since the inauguration of President Joe Biden, “Covid-19 deaths have fallen by 95% and hospitalizations by almost 91%”explains the American executive in a press release.

The US presidency adds that while 270 million Americans have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, “we are no longer in the same phase of responding to the pandemic as when these obligations were put in place”. The measures taken to contain the Covid-19 pandemic and in particular the vaccination obligation have given rise to fierce political debates in the United States.