Darth Biden has imposed a new travel ban on several African countries, including South Africa, just hours after Fauci claimed they don’t know enough to issue a travel ban yet.
BREAKING: Starting Monday the U.S. will place travel restrictions on South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi to try to contain the new variant of the coronavirus.
— Julie Banderas (@JulieBanderas) November 26, 2021
Here’s more from Fox News:
President Biden has imposed another coronavirus-related travel ban just hours after one of his top advisers cautioned that the U.S. didn’t have enough information to do so.
On Friday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, told CNN that the new of COVID-19 spreading through Africa, now named by the World Health Organization (WHO) as Omicron, was raising a “red flag that this might be an issue we don’t know.” He also emphasized the need to conduct testing.
When asked about a travel ban, he added: “Obviously as soon as we find out more information we’ll make a decision as quickly as we possibly can. You always put these things on the table, but you don’t want to say you’re going to do it until you have some scientific reason to do it. That’s the reason why we’re rushing now to get that scientific data to try and make an informed decision about something like that.”
He went on to say that “you want to find out if in fact [the variant] does evade the vaccines.”
It’s unclear what additional information, if any, prompted the administration’s decision to ban travel from eight countries on Friday. In a statement, Biden indicated that he made the decision after meeting with Fauci.
“This morning I was briefed by my chief medical advisor, Dr. Tony Fauci, and the members of our COVID response team, about the Omicron variant, which is spreading through Southern Africa,” he said. “As a precautionary measure until we have more information, I am ordering additional air travel restrictions from South Africa and seven other countries.”
Remember when Biden said Trump was ‘xenophobic’ for his travel bans to Europe? So what does that make Biden for banning travel to African countries????