The United States’ restrictions on travel from southern Africa will be ‘temporary’ and were only implemented to buy time for the country to be able to prepare.
This is according to Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, who briefed media – along with President Joe Biden – at the White House yesterday (Wednesday, December 1) following news that the first US case of Omicron had been identified in California.
“We knew it was just a matter of time,” Fauci said. “The travel ban won’t prevent infected people from arriving, but we needed to buy some time to be able to prepare.”
Last week, after the World Health Organization named the Omicron variant as a variant of concern, Biden took immediate steps to restrict travel from the most impacted countries.
“We have the public health tools we need to continue to fight this virus without shutting down our schools and businesses. Nearly 60% of…
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