Thu Jan 5, 2023 – 11:53 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The United States government has decided to extend its travel ban on foreigners unvaccinated against COVID-19 for at least another three months.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), issued a new emergency amendment last week requiring foreigners flying to the U.S. to demonstrate proof of COVID vaccination.
This emergency amendment takes effect January 9 and expires on April 10, superseding the previous emergency amendment that is set to expire January 8. The order, which applies to all foreign air carriers entering the U.S., was extended quietly and has thus far received limited mainstream media coverage. Reuters mentioned the extended order, but only in a story covering the upcoming tournaments that unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic will have to miss.
As noted in the document, the air travel ban on unvaccinated foreigners is an implementation of President Joe Biden’s “proclamation advancing the safe resumption of global travel during the COVID-19 pandemic,” first issued in 2021 but revised last April.
“Together with the Presidential Proclamation and the CDC Order, these policies are intended to limit the risk that COVID-19,
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