The Trump administration has temporarily banned foreign nationals who have been to China in the past two weeks from entering the United States.
It came as American Airlines, Delta and United suspend all flights to China for at least a month due to coronavirus fears.
President Donald Trump declared coronovirus a public health emergency as he signed an order on Friday denying entry to the foreign nationals, but immediate family of US citizens were exempt from that order.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that anyone who has been in China's Hubei province, where Wuhan - the epicenter of the outbreak - is located, in the past two weeks will be subject to mandatory quarantine for 14 days.
The ban comes as American Airlines, Delta and United announced they are suspending flights to China in response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak which has killed more than 200 people.
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So what does this accomplish? Stop flights from China?
ReplyDeleteWhat about all the people coming here from other countries that have been to China, returned to their country and fly in from say the UK?
Makes no sense what he's doing.
Maybe takes some pressure off TSA agents with less people to monitor at gates.