{"id":1150170,"date":"2021-12-24T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150170"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:19:15","slug":"biden-to-lift-travel-restrictions-on-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-lift-travel-restrictions-on-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Lift Travel Restrictions On Southern Africa"},"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\">16<\/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-to-lift-travel-restrictions-on-southern-africa%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=1150170&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\">\n<p>The U.S. will lift COVID travel restrictions on South Africa and seven other nearby countries on New Year\u2019s Eve, the White House announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden imposed the travel restrictions in late November in an attempt to slow the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Many criticized the restrictions as ineffective even at the time, given that Omicron had already spread to Europe and elsewhere. <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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On Dec. 31, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> will lift the temporary travel restrictions on Southern Africa countries. This decision was recommended by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CDCgov<\/a>. The restrictions gave us time to understand Omicron and we know our existing vaccines work against Omicron, esp boosted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NdRTtntRuE\">https:\/\/t.co\/NdRTtntRuE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Munoz (@KMunoz46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMunoz46\/status\/1474373042000195587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ban prevents virtually all travel to the U.S. for non-U.S. citizens who recently visited South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Nambia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stated Dec. 21 that he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/joe-biden-considering-reversing-south-africa-travel-ban-omicron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">considering<\/a>\u201d a reversal of the COVID restrictions. Reporters pressed him on the issue due to the prevalence of Omicron cases within U.S. borders. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/first-known-case-omicron-identified-california-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first confirmed case<\/a> of the variant within U.S. borders came Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m considering reversing it,\u201d Biden said at the time \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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will lift COVID travel restrictions on South Africa and seven other nearby countries on New Year\u2019s Eve, the White House announced Friday.President Joe Biden imposed the &#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-1150170","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\/1150170","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=1150170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150170\/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=1150170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}