The Biden government will announce this Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will remove the negative covid-19 test requirement for travelers to enter the country, according to reports that cite a high Commissioner.

The CDC will recommend lifting the measure as of Sunday and within 90 days this decision will be reevaluated based on whether they need to rectify it in the face of new eventualities related to the coronavirus pandemic.

This step will relax one of the last government mandates aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus.

The test mandate is expected to end in the first minute of Sunday Eastern time.

The 90-day review of the measure will be to assess whether, for example, it should be reinstated if a worrying new variant of the coronavirus emerges.

The Biden administration implemented the COVID-19 testing requirement last year, and also enforced the requirement that adult nonimmigrant aliens traveling to the United States must be fully vaccinated, with only limited exceptions.

In November, as the highly contagious omicron variant spread across the globe, the Biden administration tightened the requirement, requiring all travelers, regardless of vaccination status, to get tested within a day of traveling to the USA.

Airline and tourism organizations have been pushing for months to drop the test requirement, claiming it was deterring people from booking international travel. Many other countries have lifted their testing requirements for fully vaccinated travelers in order to give tourism a little boost.

Industry organizations argued in February that the testing requirement was outdated due to the large number of omicron cases that already existed in all corners of the US, higher vaccination rates, and new coronavirus treatments.