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US imposes Covid-19 travel ban on Brazil visitors, excluding Americans

24-5-2020 < RT 15 179 words
 


24 May, 2020 21:25





The White House has banned foreign nationals who visited Brazil in the last two weeks from seeking entry to the United States, after the number of coronavirus cases there soared to world’s second, after the US.



The move would ensure that “foreign nationals who have been in Brazil do not become a source of additional infections in our country,” US President Donald Trump's press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement on Sunday.


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