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The US extends European travel ban to UK and Ireland to contain coronavirus

The United States is expanding travel restrictions to include the United Kingdom and Ireland in an effort to cut down on the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Vice President Mike Pence said during Saturday press conference that the White House Coronavirus Task Force could confirm that the two additional bans would take effect at midnight, March 13. Pence specified that Americans and legal residents still in Ireland and the United Kingdom can come home, but will be funneled through specific airports that have screening guidelines. a 30-day ban on travel to the US from 26 European countriesBut on Friday, Trump said he noticed the countries' "numbers have gone up fairly precipitously over the last 24 hours," and he had been considering adding the UK and Ireland to the list.

 

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