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United States: imbroglio around reopening borders to Europeans

Contrary to what Donald Trump had first announced, the reopening of American borders to European nationals of the Schengen area, to the British, Irish and Brazilians, as of January 26, is not in the making. agenda. This was declared Monday, January 18, the future spokeswoman for the White House, Jen Psaki, contradicting a previous announcement in this direction of the president in office. “Now is not the time to lift restrictions on international travel,” said Jen Psaki, on his Twitter account, who is officially due to take up his duties as a spokesperson for new President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

The tweets fell just minutes after the announcement of Donald Trump’s decision, justified by the introduction, on the same date, of an obligation to present a negative test for the coronavirus when entering the United States. . To slow the progression of the pandemic, Donald Trump closed the United States’ borders to the 26 countries of the Schengen area on March 11, 2020, then to the United Kingdom and Ireland on the 14, before doing the same for Brazil on May 24.

“On the advice of our medical team, the (future) government does not intend to lift these restrictions on January 26,” Jen Psaki wrote on Twitter. “Moreover,” she added, “we plan to strengthen the public health measures applied to international travel to further combat the spread of Covid-19. ”

This is another episode of a transition unprecedented in modern US history, with outgoing President Donald Trump intending to limit contact with Joe Biden’s team to a minimum. Donald Trump plans to leave Washington even before his successor’s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. The United States is currently facing the worst phase of the pandemic the country has seen to date, with more than 20,000 deaths in the past six days.

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