White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients attends a gathering with President Joe Biden, concern leaders and CEOs connected the COVID-19 effect successful the room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected the White House field successful Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients attends a gathering with President Joe Biden, concern leaders and CEOs connected the COVID-19 effect successful the room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected the White House field successful Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

WASHINGTON – The Biden medication is considering requiring vaccinations against COVID-19 and interaction tracing of planetary visitors aft the U.S. revamps existent wide restrictions that barroom galore foreigners from traveling to the U.S., a apical White House advisor said Wednesday.

Jeffrey Zients, the White House coronavirus effect coordinator, said that due to the fact that of the caller summation successful COVID-19 cases, existent question restrictions volition stay successful spot until the medication rolls retired a “new system” for regulating planetary travel.

The strategy volition see a salient relation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We volition besides beryllium putting successful spot interaction tracing to alteration CDC to travel up with inbound planetary travelers and those astir them if idiosyncratic has perchance been exposed to COVID-19,” Zients said, “and we are exploring vaccination requirements for overseas nationals traveling to the United States.”

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Zients made the comments to a sheet that advises Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo connected issues astir question and the U.S. tourism industry.

The U.S. presently bars astir non-Americans who person traveled to China, India, the United Kingdom, astir of Europe, Brazil and different countries successful the erstwhile 14 days. Airlines and different question companies person pushed the medication to easiness the restrictions, peculiarly connected U.K. visitors.

Separately, Anthony Fauci, the government's apical adept connected infectious disease, has said helium would enactment a connection to necessitate vaccination for radical connected home flights.

The hose manufacture is adamantly opposed to specified a requirement, saying it would beryllium hard to enforce and could pb to agelong lines astatine airports. Industry officials accidental it would beryllium unfair to azygous retired aerial travelers with a mandate that would not impact radical who question by train, autobus oregon car.

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