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The U.S. will lift restrictions on southern African countries on Dec. 31 now that officials better understand the threat of the omicron variant of Covid-19, the White House said Friday.
With omicron widespread in the U.S. and worldwide, travelers from those nations won’t have a significant impact on the American case count, according to a senior Biden administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.