Passengers arrive on a flight from London amid new restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at New York’s JFK International Airport on December 21, 2020.
Eduardo Muñoz | Reuters
President Joe Biden on Monday banned most non-citizens from South Africa from entering the United States and extended travel restrictions to Europe, the United Kingdom and Brazil, in an effort to curb the spread of Covid -19, especially as new coronavirus strains. are identified.
The measures, reported by CNBC on Sunday, come as more contagious variants of the virus have spread.
Former President Donald Trump last week lifted entry bans on most non-US citizens who had been to the United Kingdom, Brazil or many European countries, but the then-president’s spokeswoman elected, Biden said the new administration would quickly reverse that step.
Trump’s decision to lift the rules was supposed to take effect on Tuesday, when the United States will begin requiring U.S.-bound travelers to show a recent negative and negative Covid test result before flying to the United States.
U.S. airlines had urged the Trump administration to replace travel bans with Covid testing requirements.