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President Donald Trump gave an address from the Oval Office Wednesday night and issued a travel restriction between the U.S. and Europe beginning Friday, March 13. The restrictions are scheduled to go into effect at midnight on Friday.
This follows the World Health Organization’s decision to label the crisis a pandemic. The travel restriction is scheduled to be in place for at least 30 days due to an increasing number of cases of the coronavirus. The ban applies to all European countries but does not affect the United Kingdom. The U.S. government had previously applied travel bans on China, Iran, South Korea and parts of Italy. For an up…