{"id":1073925,"date":"2021-12-01T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073925"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T23:29:59","slug":"un-head-attacks-covid-travel-bans-like-bidens-calls-it-travel-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-head-attacks-covid-travel-bans-like-bidens-calls-it-travel-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Head Attacks COVID Travel Bans Like Biden\u2019s, Calls It \u2018Travel Apartheid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fun-head-attacks-covid-travel-bans-like-bidens-calls-it-travel-apartheid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073925&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried nations like the U.S. that have imposed travel restrictions on specific countries and regions over the Omicron COVID-19 variant on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration \u2014 along with the U.K. and numerous other countries \u2014 imposed a travel ban on South Africa and other neighboring countries on Monday. South Africa was the first country to announce the discovery of the Omicron variant among its population. Many have criticized the travel restrictions as ineffective, however, given that countries in Europe, Asia and even North America had already reported cases of the variant by the time the ban went into effect. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/psaki-says-biden-was-criticizing-tweet-from-trump-not-travel-restrictions-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Psaki Says Biden Was Criticizing \u2018Xenophobic\u2019 Tweet From Trump, Not Travel Restrictions)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guterres said the restrictions are \u201cnot only deeply unfair and punitive \u2013 they are ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the instruments to have safe travel. Let\u2019s use those instruments to avoid this kind of, allow me to say, travel apartheid, which I think is unacceptable,\u201d he added, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/un-chief-slams-covid-19-travel-apartheid-unacceptable-2021-12-01\/?taid=61a7e37ea5e4bc0001be52af&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two cases of the Omicron variant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-59445388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were reported<\/a> in the U.K. on Saturday, two days before Biden\u2019s travel ban on African countries went into effect. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/joe-biden-omicron-not-cause-for-panic-defends-travel-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said he made the decision<\/a> to impose the ban thanks to advice from medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7329894\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7329894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 DECEMBER 01: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, waits to deliver an update on the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. The first case of the omicron variant in the United States has been confirmed today in California. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for the immediate travel ban is there were a significant number of cases, unlike any other country in the world,\u201d Biden said Monday. \u201cWe needed time to give people an opportunity to say, get that vaccination now before it \u2013 it\u2019s gonna move around the world. I think it\u2019s almost inevitable \u2026 that that strain is here in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/01\/health\/omicron-first-us-case-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found its first case<\/a> of the Omicron variant in California on Wednesday. Biden has said that lockdowns are off the table \u201cfor now,\u201d but urged Americans to take precautions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people are vaccinated and wear their masks, there\u2019s no need for the lockdown,\u201d he said Monday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/27\/world-health-organization-omicron-variant-nu-xi-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: WHO Admits It Skipped Over \u2018Xi Variant\u2019 To Avoid \u2018Causing Offence\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/29\/anthony-fauci-omicron-variant-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is so far little evidence<\/a> to indicate whether the Omicron variant is particularly dangerous compared to the original COVID-19 or Delta variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried nations like the U.S. that have imposed travel restrictions on specific countries and regions over the Omicron COVID-19 variant on Wednesday.President Joe Biden\u2019s administration &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}