The United States will lift on the evening of May 11 the requirement to be vaccinated against Covid-19 for federal employees and international travelers arriving by air, announced Monday, May 1, the White House. This lifting of the vaccination obligation corresponds to the end of the state of health emergency declared by Washington in January 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, "deaths due to Covid-19 have decreased by 95% and hospitalizations by almost 91%," explains the US executive in a statement. He adds that by the time 270 million Americans have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, "we are no longer in the same pandemic response phase 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.
With AFP
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