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US extends European travel ban to UK, Ireland starting Tuesday
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWASHINGTON — US Vice President Mike Pence announces that a travel ban imposed on European nations over the coronavirus pandemic would be extended to the United Kingdom and Ireland starting Tuesday.
“Americans in the UK or Ireland can come home. Legal residents can come home,” Pence tells a White House news conference, adding that such people would be “funneled through specific airports and processed.”
A 30-day US ban on travel from the EU’s Schengen border-free zone took effect today, but notably excludes Britain and Ireland.
Trump had earlier confirmed the ban would be extended to those countries as the pandemic progresses, saying: “They’ve had a little bit of activity, unfortunately.”
— AFP
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