The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travellers to the US take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights.
The move aims to ease one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
A senior administration official said the mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m.
The administrator says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has determined that the requirement is no longer necessary.
The official said the agency would re-evaluate the need for the testing requirement every 90 days and it could be reinstated if a troubling new variant emerges.
The Biden administration put in place the testing requirement last year, as it moved away from restrictions that banned non-essential travel from several dozen countries.
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