New Travel Bans Go Into Effect
By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
Leaders at the U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. annual meeting late last week felt confident they would have an easier time this year bringing in foreign guest workers than they did in 2020. But, on Monday, President Joe Biden banned foreign travelers from South Africa and reinstated travel bans from 26 European countries, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Both South Africa and the United Kingdom have new variants of COVID-19 considered to be more infectious than the more widespread version of the virus. The UK variant has been detected in the U.S., but the South African variant has not been found in the U.S. so far.