Foreign air travelers entering the United States will need to prove vaccination and have a negative COVID-19 test before boarding a flight to the country, the Washington Post reports. Foreign travelers entering through land borders need only proof of vaccination.

The existing travel bans have been in place since March 2020, when President Donald Trump's administration barred most non-US citizens from the United Kingdom, Europe, Brazil, and South Africa, from entering the country.

Airline and tourism executives applauded the decision to lift the ban.

"We welcome the Biden administration’s science-based approach to begin lifting the restrictions on travel to the U.S. that were put into place at the start of the pandemic," American's CEO Doug Parker said in a statement.

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