SOUTH African’s hoping to visit the United States will need to reconsider their plans, as President Joe Biden has imposed an entry ban on any non-U.S. citizens entering the country who have recently been in South Africa.
The US implements a ban on non-U.S. citizens entering the country who have recently been to South Africa
The new regulation will go into effect on Saturday, January 30 and will be implemented as a way to contain the spread of a new variant of COVID-19 called 501Y.V2, which was first detected in South Africa on December 18 2020.
‘We are adding South Africa to the restricted list because of the concerning variant present that has already spread beyond South Africa,’ said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director, in an interview with Reuters on Sunday.
Dr Schuchat added that the CDC was putting these measures into place to protect the population
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