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“The international markets where U.S. vaccinated travelers can go, particularly in southern Europe, we’ve had really strong booking interest,” Ed Bastian, the chief executive of Delta Air Lines, said last month, according to The Financial Times. “The problem is those markets are only one-way. The White House specifically is not willing to open up the U.S. marketplace to European or U.K. travelers, which is a source of frustration.”

While travel within the United States over the past week was down only about 14 percent compared with 2019, international travel remains down about 40 percent, according to Airlines for America, a trade association.

The United States began restricting travel by foreigners in January 2020, when President Donald J. Trump cut off some travel from China in the hope of preventing the spread of the virus. That effort largely failed.

But health officials pressed the Trump administration to expand travel bans to much of Europe during the first surge of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, and more countries have been added to the ban as the original virus and several variants have spread rapidly from country to country.

This week, the Biden administration said that it would keep in place Title 42, a public health rule that allows the government to turn back people attempting to enter the United States from its southern border.

The decision, confirmed by the C.D.C. on Monday, amounted to a shift by the administration, which had been working on plans to begin lifting the rule this summer, more than a year after it was imposed by the Trump administration.

The known total of global coronavirus infections surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, a number fueled by the emergence of the Delta variant.

Niraj Chokshi contributed reporting.