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US to impose Ebola attestation requirement for international air passengers · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
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  Speaker 1: issued an official order requiring all international air passengers destined
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  Speaker 1: for or connecting through the U.S. to complete a formal
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  Speaker 1: health attestation before boarding. Under the directive, passengers must certify
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  Speaker 1: in writing or through verified electronic portals that they have
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  Speaker 1: not been present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  Speaker 1: within the previous 21 days. Scheduled to take effect on
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  Speaker 1: November 3rd at 1159 p.m. Eastern Time, the measure applies
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  Speaker 1: universally across all foreign departure points and covers U.S. citizens,
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  Speaker 1: green card holders, and foreign nationals alike. The regulatory order
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  Speaker 1: targets the 21-day maximum incubation window characteristic of Ebola virus disease,
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  Speaker 1: establishing a mandatory barrier to prevent potential viral introduction into
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  Speaker 1: domestic transport networks. Under the new operational rules, commercial air
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  Speaker 1: carriers and private aircraft operators are legally barred from issuing
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  Speaker 1: boarding passes to any individual who refuses or fails to
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  Speaker 1: sign the required attestation. Furthermore, airlines must establish digital or
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  Speaker 1: paper archive systems capable of retaining completed passenger attestations for
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  Speaker 1: at least 42 days post-arrival. ensuring federal health officials can
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  Speaker 1: audit compliance and execute rapid contact tracing investigations if necessary.
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  Speaker 1: The health mandate complements existing travel restrictions enforced by the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security, which prohibit travelers who have visited
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  Speaker 1: outbreak-affected areas in Central Africa from entering the U.S. until
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  Speaker 1: 21 full days have elapsed since their departure. Passengers arriving
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  Speaker 1: from adjacent monitoring regions in East and Central Africa continue
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  Speaker 1: to face mandatory rerouting through designated U.S. international hubs equipped
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  Speaker 1: with specialized public health screening infrastructure. Federal officials noted that
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  Speaker 1: while direct flights between the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  Speaker 1: and the United States remain non-existent, The global attestation requirement
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  Speaker 1: is essential to identifying indirect routing paths across international connecting airports.
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  Speaker 1: Global airline industry representatives and the U.S. Customs and Border
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  Speaker 1: Protection Carrier Liaison Program have begun deploying updated check-in software
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  Speaker 1: to integrate the attestation steps into existing pre-flight screening protocols.
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  Speaker 1: Public health experts maintain that structured attestation frameworks provide vital
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  Speaker 1: layers of defense against emerging biological threats without causing widespread
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  Speaker 1: disruption to broader international aviation schedules. As implementation approaches, federal
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  Speaker 1: authorities are urging all international travelers to review airline check-in
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  Speaker 1: guidelines and allow additional processing time at foreign-origin airports.