Trump lifts Covid-19-related travel restrictions for much of Europe, the UK, Ireland and Brazil

The bad one apparently is the South African one. If I can re-find the research news bit on that, I'll post it in the Hangout thread. Not good.

 

"Europeans increasingly frustrated as White House maintains Trump-era covid travel restrictions":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...bb670c-ee48-11eb-81b2-9b7061a582d8_story.html

excerpt:

PARIS — European lawmakers and business groups voiced mounting criticism of the Biden administration on Tuesday, after the White House said its restrictions on international travel would remain in place for the time being.

Whereas vaccinated U.S. tourists have been allowed to return to much of Europe for weeks, most Europeans continue to be unable to travel to the United States under a ban that was first imposed by former president Donald Trump in March 2020.

The White House said Monday that the continuation of existing travel restrictions was due to concerns over the highly transmissible delta variant. A number of European nations, including Spain, Britain and France, have recently seen a rise in cases linked to that variant.

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E.U. critics of the U.S. approach have also pointed to less restrictive rules that are in place for travel from many other nations to the United States, including from countries with weak health systems and high coronavirus case numbers.

As vaccinated American tourists are traveling back and forth for their summer holidays in Paris or Rome again, European allies or partners of the Biden administration are finding it increasingly difficult to defend the U.S. approach that has been blamed for dividing European families and posing serious challenges to businesses.

“I think reciprocity makes sense,” said Radoslaw Sikorski, who chairs the European Parliament’s delegation for U.S. relations. “We have opened up the Schengen zone to American travelers, and the U.S. has not done that to our citizens.”
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more at the link

 

Not as bad as permitless guns in Texas. The crimes has soared in Houston.

 

Wait.. Biden is keeping travel restrictions? We've been hearing that he's opening the borders...