New travel restrictions and other steps to curb the spread of the Omicron variant were put in place world-wide as evidence grew of just how rapidly the new strain spreads
President Biden said he is considering lifting a travel ban he imposed last month on non-U. S. citizen travelers from South Africa and seven other southern African countries.’s wide spread in the U.S.
could prompt him to lift the restrictions. “Remember why I said we put the travel ban on. It was to see how much time we had before it hit here so we can begin to decide what we needed by looking up what was happening in other countries,” he said. “But we’re past that now.”
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