Reuters, citing a White House official, reported on Wednesday (4 August) that the Biden administration wants to reopen travel to boost the tourism and aviation industry, but is not "ready to immediately lift restrictions" because of the rising coronavirus case load.
Interagency working groups are reportedly working "to have a new system ready for when we can reopen travel", the official said, which includes "a phased approach that over time will mean, with limited exceptions, that foreign nationals traveling to the US need to be fully vaccinated".
