US COVID-19 Response - Europe - US Travel Ban

[Pokerface]

If you have not heard the US will restrict travel from US and Europe for 30 days starting this Friday.

Many other announcements were made. More details here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51846923
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...hnk/index.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...b6dda30fc2e389

[universal4]

Thanks, was thinking this would likely happen.

My guess is almost all countries will go into a lock down mode for a bit

We need to hope that fear and panic does not overtake everyone and that no one gets hurt for over re-actions.

I read an article about folks over reacting to someone that was coughing etc on a plane, he did not have the virus, but asthma. I can envision over reactions easily getting out of hand.

Rick
Universal4

[ddm]

So Yanks can go to .eu and infect the Europeans / get infected, and then come back and infect or reinfect the yanks - but not the other way around.

good work Donald.

[LarryKelly]

Wolfe explained that the list included the countries of the Schengen zone: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland , Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.


"The restrictions do not apply to persons permanently residing in the USA, immediate relatives of US citizens, as well as other persons additionally listed in the decree," he said.
“These restrictions will not apply to the UK,” Trump said.

I hope that this is temporary and it will all be over soon .
Do not panic please.

[Nenad]

I think that these restrictions also apply to the UK and Ireland. And I think that US-Canada border is closed, or I am wrong?