White House reveals new travel restrictions to Brazil due to Coronavirus

President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the 2019 G20 Summit. | Shealah Craighead/White House

The White House announced on Sunday new coronavirus travel restrictions that would suspend all entry on non-U.S. citizen entry from Brazil, beginning on Thursday at 11:59 pm ET.

White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany said that the travel bans hopes to tighten the risk of new cases brought to the United States. Brazil currently has 347,398 cases, according to the John Hopkins University.

"Today's action will help ensure foreign nationals who have been in Brazil do not become a source of additional infections in our country," McEnany said in a statement.

“These restrictions do not apply to the flow of commerce between the United States and Brazil,” she added.

New action by the president to limit travel from Brazil to the US as Brazil’s coronavirus cases spike. pic.twitter.com/M2kcYjHRjW

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Previously, national security adviser Robert O’Brien told CBS’s “Face The Nation” that Trump was likely to announce new travel restrictions.

O’Brien expressed in the interview that he expected any ban would be temporary.