<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - COVID-19 tests now required for all US bound international flyers"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Korey Mudd wasn't fazed by the cleaning crew outside his Mexico hotel room when he and his wife returned from the pool.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"There was someone wiping down the door and the handles and stuff,'' he said. "They asked me if it was my room, and I said, yes.''</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">The 30-year-old control room operator didn't grow concerned until a hotel manager and other officials pulled up in a golf cart. </p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">They delivered bad news: Mudd's COVID-19 test, taken that morning at the hotel so he could board his flight home to Michigan under <a target="_blank" href="/story/travel/airline-news/2021/01/13/coronavirus-tests-required-new-cdc-rules-international-flights/6643147002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules for international flights</a> to the United States, was positive.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">How soon could he pack up and move to another room for mandatory isolation? </p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">An hour later, Mudd was whisked to a new room. His wife, who had tested negative, was given the choice of staying in their casita at El Dorado Casitas Royale or moving into a room next door to his in the quarantine wing. She picked the latter.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">It was the fifth day of their weeklong honeymoon in Riviera Maya outside Cancun.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Travel to Mexico and other international destinations open to Americans during the coronavirus pandemic took on additional risk when the new CDC guidelines <a target="_blank" href="/story/travel/airline-news/2021/01/25/covid-travel-restrictions-covid-test-international-flights-us-cdc-biden/6673817002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">went into effect </a>Jan. 26. </p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">'We got bored and wanted to go on a trip':</strong><a target="_blank" href="/in-depth/travel/destinations/2021/03/21/cancun-spring-break-tourists-in-mexico-covid-explain-why-traveled/4669009001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Tales from a pandemic spring break in Cancun, Mexico</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">Craving Cancun surf and sun? </strong><a target="_blank" href="/story/travel/destinations/2021/03/21/cancun-mexico-travel-during-covid-pandemic-what-to-know/4767289001/" rel="noopener" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Here's what COVID-19 has and hasn't changed about the Mexico vacation mecca</a></p><h2 class="gnt_ar_b_h2">Do you need a COVID test to fly?</h2><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Travelers don't need a COVID test to fly to Mexico,...</p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/03/28/mexico-covid-travel-stuck-covid-test-positive-cdc-international-flights/6982341002/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
