International travel is expected to resume with vaccine programs underway worldwide.
The Chinese CDC’s chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou, stated on March 1 that travel restrictions between the US and China could be lifted as early as August. This remains dependent on the US successfully achieving their target of vaccinating 90% of their population by that time, according to Global Times.
So far, 15.6% of the US population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, as cited by NPR.
Wu speculated that, if additional political barriers are also removed, the two countries could be the first in the world to remove all travel barriers.
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