visitors from Europe banned from US for next 30 days

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Holy shit, this is unreal.

And Trump aint going there either but he may pop in here for a bit...

BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51846923

The article says that people coming from the U.K. won’t be banned, which I find odd because I don’t think our government is handling it well at all. Schools are no longer being closed and deep cleaned if someone has been there for example. Plus all of the worrying comments from posters I’ve read on other threads.

Omg. I just also read it’s been declared a pandemic by the WHO!

Except the UK, because we don't need to do anything - Borris thinks we are immune.

Trump agreed.

What makes us so bloody special ?????

Because Trump wants to be able to go to his golf course still..

Wow, airlines will be hit.

No idea why he's left UK out of this. We're one of the worst hit in Europe and not handling it particularly well.

He or his family probably have a trip planned !

Bit pointless to exclude the UK, we've been hit too, plus Europeans who want to travel will just reroute via Heathrow or Manchester

Yes it’s puzzling why he’s left us out considering we’re still allowing flights in from all over Europe. Won’t they then just come here to take a flight out?!

or maybe he didn't know UK was not part of Schengen.

I take that back, he specifically says these restrictions will not apply to the United Kingdom.

This will be a test to see if the UK follows suit - if we are really out of Europe we need to follow the USAs take on this.

It only makes sense that we would follow suit surely?

I cannot fathom the implications on airlines, hotels and insurance claims......
God knows why he left the UK off the list?!

Purely political.

I'd say he was being sensible in banning flights but has made the mistake of leaving the UK off the ban list. More countries, including ours need to be taking such steps.

This is crazy? How can he differentiate between the UK and the rest of Europe? Did our island move when we Brexited??

Surely this means that anyone in Europe who is determined to travel to the USA will do so via the U.K.?

Which will bring more people from Europe, who may potentially be carrying the disease, to the UK.

World's gone mad.

The UK exception is, quite obviously, pure politics, I would have reckoned. Trump thinks of the rest of the world in terms of "good guys and bad guys" - because he's just literally that dimwitted!

But, yes, the implications for the travel industry will be horrendous. I'm predicting at least two big brand carriers in the airline industry will not survive this. The costs of keeping a fleet of modern passenger aircraft on the ground without them generating any revenue are simply prohibitive.

The ban applies to anyone who has been in the EU in the past 14 days. I imagine they will be turned away at passport control when they present an EU passport if they try and come in via UK.

You won’t be able to enter the US if you have been in the restricted area in the past 14 days so not as simple as routing via Heathrow

I think this is the right thing to do and the UK should follow suit with regards to people flying in/out not just Europe tho.

We were due to go to Florida in October as a large family holiday but my mums put my dad off booking for now.

This sounds ridiculous. My sister is still planning to go to the Dominican republic next month.