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The United States will not lift travel bans for the time being. That is the
outcome of a government meeting about this, an insider reported to the Reuters
news agency. The Joe Biden administration is very concerned about the delta
variant.
 
Partly due to this variant, the number of infections has recently increased
again in the US. Moreover, vaccination is becoming slower and slower, because
many Americans do not (yet) want to be vaccinated. Vaccination coverage is
lagging behind, especially in the South and Midwest.
 
The government fears that the number of infections will increase even further
if, for example, Europeans can go on holiday in the country again, and
therefore does not think it wise to abolish the entry ban. Besides Europeans,
Chinese and Indians are also not welcome.
 
The news has yet to be officially confirmed, but this is likely to be another
blow to the aviation industry. Airlines have lobbied intensively in Washington
to abolish this travel restriction. So far this seems to have been
unsuccessful.
 
Americans are welcome in the European Union, for example for a holiday, so for
the time being the transatlantic airlines will have to rely mainly on American
customers. That is not enough to properly fill the planes again.

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