President Joe Biden plans to restrict travel from India on May 4 over the country’s coronavirus surge, despite describing such bans as “xenophobic” during the 2020 presidential campaign.
The president plans to act on advice from federal health officials, Reuters reported Friday, citing a White House official.
The official said the travel ban from India would be announced Friday “in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating in India.”
The ban prevents foreign nationals from entering the United States through India if they have been…
