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The Biden administration has said it will maintain its Covid-related travel bans for the foreseeable future on a range of countries, including the UK, the EU and China, due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
The comments from the White House will dash the hopes of many European countries and airlines that the US would relax its long-held bans in time for the start of the summer holidays.
Early optimism about restoring international travel has been dented by the rapid spread of the Delta variant and the toughening response of the Biden administration and some of the bigger states and cities.
Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said over the weekend that the number of new cases in the US was “going in the wrong direction”, especially in areas with low…
