{"id":256089,"date":"2020-05-26T04:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=256089"},"modified":"2020-05-26T04:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:23:38","slug":"us-bans-entry-of-non-us-citizens-from-brazil-over-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/26\/us-bans-entry-of-non-us-citizens-from-brazil-over-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"US bans entry of non-US citizens from Brazil over virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148362\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-2713652_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148362\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-2713652_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-2713652_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-2713652_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-2713652_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The announcement came days after President Donald Trump said he is considering imposing a halt on all travel coming from Latin America and Brazil amid worsening coronavirus outbreaks in the region. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The US on Sunday announced that it is suspending the entry of non-US citizens traveling from Brazil due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the President has taken decisive action to protect our country by suspending the entry of aliens who have been in Brazil during the 14-day period before seeking admittance to the United States,&#8221; said White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The South American nation has become a coronavirus hotspot in the region and now has the second highest number of confirmed cases in the world with more than 347,000 infections.<\/p>\n<p>It has also recorded over 22,000 deaths from the virus, which has killed more than 344,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts say the real number of cases could be even higher because of insufficient testing in the country of around 210 million people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s action will help ensure foreign nationals who have been in Brazil do not become a source of additional infections in our country,&#8221; said McEnany.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions do not apply to the flow of commerce between the US and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came days after President Donald Trump said he is considering imposing a halt on all travel coming from Latin America and Brazil amid worsening coronavirus outbreaks in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are considering it,&#8221; Trump said Tuesday when asked by a reporter about possibly imposing the sweeping travel ban. &#8220;Brazil has gone more or less herd, and they&#8217;re having problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Friday, the World Health Organization announced that South America has become a new epicenter of the pandemic with Brazil the hardest-hit.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.6 million people have contracted the disease in the US, and the death toll stands at more than 97,600, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 The US on Sunday announced that it is suspending the entry of non-US citizens traveling from Brazil due to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256090,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256089\/revisions\/256090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}