{"id":1150248,"date":"2021-12-24T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150248"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:49:14","slug":"joe-biden-drops-travel-restrictions-on-african-countries-wh-says-it-wont-slow-omicron-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-drops-travel-restrictions-on-african-countries-wh-says-it-wont-slow-omicron-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Drops Travel Restrictions\u00a0on African Countries \u2014 WH Says It Won&#039;t Slow Omicron in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fjoe-biden-drops-travel-restrictions-on-african-countries-wh-says-it-wont-slow-omicron-in-usa%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=1150248&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 class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden announced Friday he will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KMunoz46\/status\/1474373042000195587\">lift<\/a> travel restrictions&nbsp;on eight African countries on December 31, attributing the decision to the fact that restricting international travel will not greatly affect the Wuhan coronavirus Omicron variant\u2019s spread in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden imposed the omicron-related travel restrictions in late November after criticizing former President Trump as racist for doing so in 2020, Biden will reportedly retract the flight restrictions&nbsp;nearly one month later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our health and medical experts at the CDC, the value of country-based international travel restrictions is greatest early in an outbreak, before the virus or variant has been widely disseminated,\u201d the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/12\/24\/us-travel-restrictions-lifting-southern-africa\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cThis value declines as domestic transmission starts to contribute a larger proportion of case burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/21\/politics\/us-travel-ban-omicron\/index.html\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;the travel restrictions may be lifted because he failed to stop the omicron variant from spreading through the nation. \u201cI\u2019m considering reversing [the ban], I\u2019m going to talk to my team in the next couple days,\u201d Biden told reporters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15488942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Empty-South-African-Airways-check-in-counters-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15488942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Empty-South-African-Airways-check-in-counters-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Empty SAA (South African Airways) check-in counters are seen at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 15, 2019. - The South African airline company has cancelled nearly all its domestic, regional and international flights scheduled for November 15, 2019 and November 16, 2019 following the announcement by the South African Cabin Crew Association and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) that their members will go on strike from November 15, 2019. (Photo by Michele Spatari \/ AFP) (Photo by MICHELE SPATARI\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Empty SAA (South African Airways) check-in counters are seen at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 15, 2019. (Michele Spatari\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though Biden campaigned on a \u201creturn to normalcy\u201d platform and promised to shut the virus down, Biden&nbsp;explained to&nbsp;reporters he frantically implemented the travel ban to understand how omicron may impact the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember why I said we put the travel ban on \u2014 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 was happening in other countries,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cAnd we\u2019re past that now, and so it\u2019s something that\u2019s being raised with me by the docs and I\u2019ll have an answer for that soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s decision to remove travel restrictions is the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/year-end-recap-joe-biden-claims-americans-are-in-better-circumstances\/\">reaction<\/a>&nbsp;to the omicron variant in a string of chaotic regressions during his regime.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into Christmas, thousands of flights have been canceled for Christmas and Christmas Eve, testing kits are in short supply, professional sports leagues have postponed games,&nbsp;schools have closed early for Christmas break, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/cdc-advisory-panel-recommends-pfizer-and-modern-vaccines-over-johnson-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">marked<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;Johnson and Johnson vaccine for safety hazards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden announced Friday he will\u00a0lift travel restrictions\u00a0on eight African countries on December 31, attributing the decision to the fact that restricting international travel will not greatly affect the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-1150248","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\/1150248","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150248\/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=1150248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}