President Joe Biden announced Tuesday, December 28, the lifting, to December 31, of the ban on entry into the United States for travelers from eight countries in southern Africa, a month after a brutal shutdown caused by the variant Omicron.
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Travel restrictions (...) are no longer necessary to protect public health
", specifies the president in his decree.
This reopening of borders concerns South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.
