The rules to enter the US change.: They raise travel prohibition for several countries

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The United States raised travel restrictions on Monday from a long list of countries, including Mexico, Canada and most of Europe, which allowed tourists to make very delayed trips and family members re -connect with their beingsDear after more than a year and a half of difference due to pandemic.

"I'm going to jump into his arms, kiss him, touch him," Gaye Camara said on the husband in New York who has not seen since Covid-19 stopped the world of travel here and there and everywhere.

"Just talking about that excites me," said Camara, 40, while driving her luggage at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, which could almost be confused with her prepazedic version, occupied with crowds humming, although with facial masks.

The rules that will enter into force on Monday allow traveling by plane from a series of countries from which he has been restricted since the first days of the pandemic, provided that the traveler has vaccination test and a negative COVID-19 test.Those who cross a land border from Mexico or Canada will require vaccination test but not prove.

American citizens and permanent residents were always allowed to enter the US, but travel prohibitions blocked tourists, frustrated business travelers and, often, separated families.

Airlines are now preparing for an increase in travel.Travel firm and analysis cirium shows that airlines are increasing flights between the United Kingdom and the US.in 21% this month compared to last month.

When Camara saw Mamadou, her husband, in January 2020, had no way of knowing that they would have to wait 21 months before hugging again.He lives in the French region of Alsacia, where he works as a secretary.It has its headquarters in New York.

"It was very hard at the beginning.I cried almost every night, ”he said."I overcome it thanks to him.Know how to talk to me, calm me ".

The video calls, text messages and telephone conversations held them connected, but could not fill the separation vacuum.

"I can't wait," he said."Be with him, his presence, his face, his smile".

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For grandmother Maria Giribet, the best of her eyes are her grandchildren Gabriel and David.The twins are in San Francisco, who during the Pandogeus of the Pandemia could well have been another planet for Giribet, 74, who lives on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.Now from 3 1/2 to 4, the children had half of that age when he saw them for the last time.

"I'm going to hug them, suffocate them, that's what I dream of," Giribet said after registering for his flight.Widow, she lost her husband due to a long disease before the pandemic and her three adult children live abroad: a son in Paris, a daughter in Richmond, Virginia, and the father of the twins in San Francisco.

"I found myself completely alone," said Giribet, who was flying alone in his life.

The change will also have a deep effect on the US borders.UU.With Mexico and Canada, where traveling back and forth was a way of life until it hit the pandemic and the USA.UU.prohibited non -essential trips.

Commercial centers, restaurants and Main Street stores in the border cities of the United States have been devastated by the lack of visitors from Mexico.On the border with Canada, the rivalries of cross -border hockey that were traditions of the community overturned.The churches that had members on both sides of the border hope to welcome parishioners who have not seen in almost two years.

Loved ones have lost vacations, birthdays and funerals, while non -essential air trips were prohibited and are now eager to connect again.

The American couple of River Robinson could not be in Canada for the birth of their baby 17 months ago.I was delighted to listen to the reopening of the United States.

"I'm planning to take my baby for American Thanksgiving," said Robinson, who lives in St.Thomas, Ontario."If everything goes well on the border, plan to tear it down as much as I can".

EE.UU.will accept travelers who have been completely vaccinated with any of the approved vaccines for emergency use by the World Health Organization, not only those used in the US.UU.That is a relief for many in Canada, where the Astrazeneca vaccine is widely used.

Measures occur when EE.UU.He has seen his Covid-19 perspective drastically improve in recent weeks since the sudden increase of the delta in the summer that led hospitals to the edge of the abyss in many places.

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Associated Press Rob Gillies journalist in Toronto contributed to this report.

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