Fauci Says Biden Administration Reevaluating Omicron Travel Bans

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White Houseโ€™s chief medical adviser, said on Dec. 5 that the Biden administration is reevaluating travel bans it has put in place in an effort to stem the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Speaking on CNNโ€™s โ€œState of the Union,โ€ Fauci said the administration feels โ€œvery badlyโ€ about the impact caused by the travel restrictions imposed on South Africa and a handful of other neighboring countries.

โ€œWe all feel very badly about the hardship that might have put upon not only South Africa, but the other African countries. And for that reason, in real-time, literally, on a daily basis โ€ฆ weโ€™re reevaluating that policy,โ€ Fauci said.

The new variant was first detected in South Africa last month and has sparked concern among scientists owing to its high number of mutations and the fact that it appears to spread rapidly.

In response, dozens of countries around the world including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iran, Japan, Thailand, the United States, and European Union countries subsequently closed their borders or imposed restrictions on a slew of southern African countries.

Fauci said the travel restrictions imposed on the country were purely a preemptive measure and gave the administration time to assess the situation.

โ€œThat ban was done at a time when we were really in the dark. We had no idea what was going on, except it does seem to have been an explosion of cases of Omicron in South Africa,โ€ Fauci said on Dec. 5. โ€œSo when the ban was put on, it was put to give us time to figure out just what is going on.โ€

โ€œNow as weโ€™re getting more and more information about cases in our own country, and worldwide weโ€™re looking at that very carefully on a daily basis, hopefully, weโ€™ll be able to lift that ban within a quite reasonable period of time.โ€

President Joe Biden announced the decision to restrict travel last month from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. Those restrictions went into effect on Nov. 29.

Byย Katabella Roberts

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