The Biden administration has evidence that COVID cases and deaths are declining in China and also has a better understanding of the surge. However, the airport variant surveillance effort will continue to monitor flights from China among other countries.
and scientists have been all descendants of Omicron variants, similar to those seen abroad.
The Biden administration now has evidence that COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining in China, sources familiar with the move said, and also has a better understanding of the surge. The CDC's airport surveillance has also reported sequencing a handful of COVID-19 cases in arriving international travelers from China, according to data posted to the
. All have been Omicron variants. The airport variant surveillance effort will continue to monitor flights from China among other countries, sources said.Federal health officials have defended their decision to require negative COVID-19 tests on arriving international travelers. However, officials acknowledged it would not prevent all cases from entering the country.analyzing data from the original U.S.
"Certainly, pre-departure testing is leaky and won't prevent all new variants coming into the U.S. that we're trying to slow transmission there," the CDC's Henry Walke told a panel of the agency's advisers in January.
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