the cdc says there s a high to very high risk of spread across europe. jeff zeleny is live from nantucket for us. pete muntean joins us from reagan airport. they moved very quickly. all of a sudden, by the end of the day, all of these travel restrictions were announced. what are your white house sources telling you now? reporter: gym, no question, just shortly after, moments after the world health organizationsh the who s showed that concern, and on vacation propresident biden is spending time with his family, issued the travel restrictions to begin monday morning for south africa and seven other african countries, really stopping people from flying here to the u.s. unless you re an american citizen. but the white house also saying they simply do not know enough about this vane. as you said, it will buy them some time, but the white house is focusing on another big problem the unvaccinated here in the u.s. the president had this message . reporter: so president biden th
african region, the president acknowledging there s still a lot that needs to be learned about this variant, but for now he believes this is the right approach. take a listen. i decided we re going to be cautious. we don t know a lot about the variant except that it is a big concern. it spreads rapidly. i spent about a hoff hour this morning with my covid team let by dr. fauci. reporter: so that decision was made in consultation with dr. anthony fauci, and the rest of his coronavirus team. one things that officials are hoping is that issuing this restriction, these new travel restrictions will essentially give the administration more time to learn about this variant, and what it could potentially do if it were to make its way to the united states. these restrictions are set to go in place on monday. officials say they are acting as quickly as possible, but that that time is needed to issue directives to the tsa, and also work with airlines as they are trying to put these
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