Washington: President Joe Biden will re-impose a corona travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe. 

Confirming the media report, a White House official on Sunday said that the Biden will also on Monday extend the ban to travellers who have recently been to South Africa amid warnings that new, more transmissible corona strain are already establishing themselves in the United States. The new president last week tightened mask-wearing rules and ordered quarantine for people flying into the United States, as he seeks to tackle the country's worsening coronavirus crisis. Biden has said that the corona death toll would likely rise from 420,000 to half a million next month -- and that drastic action was needed.

Earlier Donald Trump imposed corona ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted -- but the Biden administration immediately said it would reverse the order due to come into effect on January 26. Trump had announced an initial ban on January 31, 2020 on non-American travelers entering from China. The ban was extended to European countries on March 14 as the pandemic entered full force.

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