Today the Trump administration said it will bar entry to the US of foreign nationals who’ve recently been to China. The extraordinary measure, which will throw many a travel plan into disarray, comes in response to a rapidly spreading coronavirus that has sickened thousands of people around the world and killed hundreds in China, where it is believed to have originated in the central city of Wuhan.
The temporary measure will go into effect Sunday (Feb. 2) at 5pm, applying to any foreign national who has been in China in the last 14 days, said Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary, at a White House media briefing.
An exception will be made for immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents, he said, but a mandatory 14-day quarantine awaits US citizens who’ve traveled to China’s Hubei Province within the last two weeks. A federal quarantine order hasn’t been issued since the 1960s.
Azar, who is coordinating the federal response, added that Americans returning from other parts of China will face screening at select ports of entry and be asked to perform a 14-day “self-isolation” period at home, with local health officials monitoring their health.
Azar also said the US was declaring a public health emergency over the virus.
All flights from China will be diverted to seven airports: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Atlanta, O’Hare in Chicago, and John F. Kennedy in New York.
Today the US State Department also warned Americans to avoid all travel to China due the outbreak.
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Steve Mollman
Today the Trump administration said it will bar entry to the US of foreign nationals who’ve recently been to China. The extraordinary measure, which will throw many a travel plan into disarray, comes in response to a rapidly spreading coronavirus that has sickened thousands of people around the world and killed hundreds in China, where it is believed to have originated in the central city of Wuhan.
The temporary measure will go into effect Sunday (Feb. 2) at 5pm, applying to any foreign national who has been in China in the last 14 days, said Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary, at a White House media briefing.
An exception will be made for immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents, he said, but a mandatory 14-day quarantine awaits US citizens who’ve traveled to China’s Hubei Province within the last two weeks. A federal quarantine order hasn’t been issued since the 1960s.
Azar, who is coordinating the federal response, added that Americans returning from other parts of China will face screening at select ports of entry and be asked to perform a 14-day “self-isolation” period at home, with local health officials monitoring their health.
Azar also said the US was declaring a public health emergency over the virus.
All flights from China will be diverted to seven airports: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Atlanta, O’Hare in Chicago, and John F. Kennedy in New York.
Today the US State Department also warned Americans to avoid all travel to China due the outbreak.
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