{"id":1138566,"date":"2021-12-21T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138566"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:49:20","slug":"biden-says-hes-considering-reversing-south-african-travel-ban-now-that-omicron-is-present-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-hes-considering-reversing-south-african-travel-ban-now-that-omicron-is-present-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He\u2019s \u2018Considering Reversing\u2019 South African Travel Ban Now That Omicron Is Present In US"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-says-hes-considering-reversing-south-african-travel-ban-now-that-omicron-is-present-in-us%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=1138566&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--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.719424460432\">\n<p>President Joe Biden said Tuesday he\u2019s \u201cconsidering reversing\u201d the travel ban issued to South Africa and seven other countries shortly after Thanksgiving due to the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/26\/joe-biden-travel-restrictions-south-africa-coronavirus-variant-omicron\/\">announced<\/a> travel restrictions from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi on Nov. 26 after South Africa identified the newest variant. Omicron is believed to be more transmissible but may have less severe symptoms than previous coronavirus variants.<\/p>\n<p>With Omicron cases so prevalent in the U.S., the president was asked about reversing the travel ban Tuesday. The administration has always maintained that the travel restrictions were temporary. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/joe-biden-free-at-home-rapid-coronavirus-tests-americans-omicron-winter\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Biden To Announce Plan For Free At-Home Tests Sent To Americans\u2019 Doorsteps)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m considering reversing it,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI\u2019m gonna talk with my team in the next couple days. Look, 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 could begin to decide what we needed by looking at what\u2019s happening in other countries. But we\u2019re past that now, and so that\u2019s something that is being raised with me by the docs and I\u2019ll have an answer for that soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions officially began Nov. 29, and less than two days later the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the first known case of the Omicron variant had been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/first-known-case-omicron-identified-california-cdc\/\">identified<\/a> inside the U.S. Since then, Omicron <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/cdc-omicron-variant-covid-19-coronavirus\/\">cases<\/a> have exploded, and it\u2019s believed that 73% of new cases in the country are now linked to the variant, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/omicron-majority-us-cases-833001ef99862bd6ac17935f65c896cf\">according<\/a> to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the first doctors to treat Omicron in South Africa,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/south-africa-gauteng-epicenter-omicron-cases-dropping\/\">told<\/a> said Monday on CNN that cases in the province where it was first identified are beginning to drop. Coetzee has been outspoken about the variant since it was first identified and previously said she was seeing patients with \u201cvery mild\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/28\/anthony-fauci-omicron-inevitably-found-in-us\/\">symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Tuesday he\u2019s \u201cconsidering reversing\u201d the travel ban issued to South Africa and seven other countries shortly after Thanksgiving due to the Omicron variant.Biden announced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-1138566","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\/1138566","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138566\/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=1138566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}