Ken Kurtis
Contributor
As many of you know, I do a lot of travel, taking people scuba diving all over the world. I have a trip to Mexico in a couple of weeks. We get off the boat Sunday morning and will be given a COVID test. Most people are flying Sunday but three are flying Monday, so the question was: How long is the Sunday COVID test good for? The website says "no more than 1 day" but is that 24 hours or a calendar day? So . . .
I just got off the phone with the CDC and confirmed with them that the requirement for a negative COVID test "no more than 1 day before you travel by air into the United States" does NOT mean 24 hours but means on whatever day you get your test, it's valid for travel until 11:59PM the following day. So for our next-day threesome who are flying on Monday, the test you get on Sunday is valid through 11:59PM Monday.
Pass the word because it seems a lot of folks are reading "no more than 1 day" as 24 hours.
I just got off the phone with the CDC and confirmed with them that the requirement for a negative COVID test "no more than 1 day before you travel by air into the United States" does NOT mean 24 hours but means on whatever day you get your test, it's valid for travel until 11:59PM the following day. So for our next-day threesome who are flying on Monday, the test you get on Sunday is valid through 11:59PM Monday.
Pass the word because it seems a lot of folks are reading "no more than 1 day" as 24 hours.