The US government wants to lift entry restrictions at the land borders with Canada and Mexico for people vaccinated against corona. The easing should take effect in November and also apply to ferry crossings.

Anyone who can prove that they are completely vaccinated against the coronavirus can also use it to travel to the USA for non-essential purposes, such as visiting friends and family or for tourism. In a further step, the regulation will also be extended to necessary trips from the beginning of January 2022, then complete vaccination protection is a condition upon entry in these cases, as the ORF reports. Until then, affected people such as truck drivers, students and health care workers would have enough time to get vaccinated.

The USA had already announced last month that it would lift the month-long entry restrictions on international air traffic for vaccinated people from the EU, Great Britain and other countries, among others. The extensive entry ban was imposed by the then US President Donald Trump at the beginning of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic.