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Trump to lift some Covid travel restrictions, a move Biden quickly rejects - NBC News

Trump to lift some Covid travel restrictions, a move Biden quickly rejects - NBC News

Jan 19, 2021 55 secs

President Donald Trump said Monday that he is ending Covid-19 travel restrictions for air travelers from Europe and Brazil, a move the incoming administration quickly rejected.

In a proclamation, Trump said the restrictions would be lifted Jan.

26, the same day a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order requiring negative tests for air travelers coming to the U.S.

"With the pandemic worsening, and more contagious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel," said Biden's press secretary, Jen Psaki.

The travel restrictions put in place last year prevented most people without U.S.

Trump's proclamation said the restrictions would be lifted for Europe and Brazil because the U.S.

If the restrictions are lifted as in Trump's proclamation, travelers from the United Kingdom, the Schengen Area in Europe, Ireland and Brazil would still have to test negative.

Trump said he was leaving the restrictions in place for China and Iran in part because "their lack of cooperation with the United States thus far in combatting the pandemic, cast doubt on their cooperation" with the testing order.

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