Fauci Says Southern Africa Travel Ban on Omicron Is ‘Temporary’
- U.S. sought to ‘buy some time’ to prepare for variant, he says
- Fauci urges vaccinations, boosters to bolster virus protection
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The Biden administration’s restrictions on travel from southern Africa because of the omicron coronavirus variant will be temporary, Anthony Fauci said Wednesday after health officials identified the first U.S. case of the mutated virus.
The travel ban won’t prevent infected people from arriving “but we needed to buy some time to be able to prepare,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Wednesday at the White House. He’s also President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser.