Fauci: U.S. reevaluating southern Africa travel ban, 'hopefully' it will be lifted

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Dr. Fauci says he hopes the ban on travelers from southern African countries can be lifted in a 'reasonable period of time' as more information on the omicron variant is gathered.

on individuals departing from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi in an effort to control the spread of the emerging omicron variant.“As we're getting more and more information about cases in our own country and worldwide we're looking at that very carefully on a daily basis. Hopefully we'll be able to lift that ban within a quite reasonable period of time,” Fauci said on CNN’s"State of the Union" Sunday.

The Biden administration is reevaluating the policy “in real time, literally, on a daily basis," Fauci added. The omicron variant, which has been classified by the World Health Organization as a variant of concern, is blamed for a recent surge of cases in South Africa and has sparked fears over its high number of mutations, which could make it more transmissible than previous variants and resistant to vaccines.

 

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More proof that if he would like to see it lifted in a reasonable time that it isn't as bad as the media is making it out to be.

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Dr Fauci says… *literally everyone stops reading* Newsflash: Fauci is unqualified and criminal and the entire country knows. Enough with the charades.

Hypocrisy, shameless

more proof of the systemic racism of the country

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