New U.S. travel rule excludes Russia's Sputnik V

 

A woman receives the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Sergei Savostyanov\TASS via Getty Images

 

New rules allowing fully vaccinated international travellers to enter the U.S. beginning in November will exclude those vaccinated by Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.  Sputnik V's exclusion will mean millions of fully vaccinated individuals won't be eligible to travel to the U.S.

According to the new rules, non-citizens entering the country must be inoculated with vaccines approved for emergency use by either the Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization.   These include the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines used widely in the U.S., as well as the AstraZeneca vaccine. It also includes the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines developed by China.