{"id":30824,"date":"2021-01-18T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30824"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:17:05","slug":"president-trump-moves-to-lift-coronavirus-travel-restrictions-on-europe-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30824","title":{"rendered":"President Trump moves to lift coronavirus travel restrictions on Europe, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has lifted travel bans for Brazil and much of Europe effective Jan. 26 as he prepares for a flurry of eleventh-hour activity before he leaves office \u2014 including issuing a new set of pardons.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced Monday night in a proclamation that \u201cthe unrestricted entry into the United States\u201d from Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the 26 countries of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/home-affairs\/sites\/homeaffairs\/files\/e-library\/docs\/schengen_brochure\/schengen_brochure_dr3111126_en.pdf\">Schengen area in Europe<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Italy and more \u2014 is now allowed. The move steals the thunder of the incoming Biden administration, which had publicized plans for a similar move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I) find that it is in the interest of the United States to terminate the suspension of entry into the United States of persons who have been physically present in those jurisdictions,\u201d Trump\u2019s proclamation reads.<\/p>\n<p>Trump added he\u2019s \u201cleaving in place the restrictions applicable to the People\u2019s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d for their \u201ctheir lack of transparency, and their lack of cooperation with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-Outstream_Video\" class=\"dfp-ad dfp-Outstream_Video\" data-ad-unit=\"Outstream_Video\"><\/div>\n<p>Lifting the ban, he adds, \u201cis the best way to continue protecting Americans from COVID-19 while enabling travel to resume safely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has lifted travel bans&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30825,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30824\/revisions\/30825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}