The U.S. government is restricting travel from Brazil to the U.S. due to the spread of coronavirus. Brazilians and foreigners who were in the country in the two weeks before a planned entry are no longer allowed in the United States come, the White House said. The regulation therefore applies from Friday and is not limited in time. This does not include US citizens, their family members, permanent residents and diplomats.
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“The measure will help ensure that foreigners who have been to Brazil will not become a source of new infections in our country,” said the President’s spokeswoman Donald Trump, Kayleigh McEnany. Trade is not affected by the new restrictions, it said.
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Due to the spread of the corona virus, Trump had already imposed an entry ban for foreigners from China, the European Schengen area, Great Britain and Ireland. Travel across the American border to Canada in the north and Mexico in the south are also temporarily restricted due to the pandemic.
In Brazil According to Johns Hopkins University, there were around 350,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and 22,000 deaths by Sunday. The most populous country in Latin America now has absolute numbers worldwide the second most infections registered – more is only available in the United States with more than 1.6 million known infections and almost 100,000 deaths.
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