{"id":262178,"date":"2021-04-30T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/biden-bans-travel-from-india-amid-covid-surge.html"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:49:21","slug":"biden-bans-travel-from-india-amid-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/biden-bans-travel-from-india-amid-covid-surge.html","title":{"rendered":"Biden bans travel from India amid COVID surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/440af_image.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Flash top headlines for April 30\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Fox News Flash top headlines for April 30<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what&#8217;s clicking on Foxnews.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Biden<\/a> administration\u00a0has upgraded its <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">travel<\/a> <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">advisory<\/a> for <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">India<\/a> to an outright ban as the <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">crisis<\/a> in the country continues to spiral out of control &#8212; something President Biden once said would &#8220;not stop&#8221; coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the ban Friday afternoon, saying the decision was made on the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">US ISSUES INDIA TRAVEL ADVISORY AS COVID-19 CRISIS DEEPENS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The administration will restrict travel from India starting immediately,&#8221; Psaki told reporters. &#8220;The policy will be implemented in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in India.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The policy will take effect on Tuesday, May 4. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">DR. GIROIR ON &#8216;MIXED MESSAGING&#8217; FROM BIDEN: HE&#8217;S &#8216;CAUSING PEOPLE TO NOT HAVE FAITH&#8217; IN VACCINES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has previously been critical of travel bans implemented by then-President Donald Trump as a tool to fight the spread of COVID-19, saying they &#8220;will not stop&#8221; the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Banning all travel from Europe \u2014 or any other part of the world \u2014 will not stop it,&#8221; Biden <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">tweeted in March 2020<\/a>\u00a0at the very start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wall will not stop the coronavirus,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Banning all travel from Europe &#8212; or any other part of the world &#8212; will not stop it. This disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet &#8212; and we need a plan to combat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/JG1F7uhWWi0\/biden-bans-travel-india-covid<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Fox News Flash top headlines for April 30 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what&#8217;s clicking on Foxnews.com. The Biden administration\u00a0has upgraded its travel advisory for India to an outright ban as the COVID-19 crisis in the country continues to spiral out of control &#8212; something President Biden once said would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-262178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}