When Donald Trump announced a European travel ban earlier in the week, the U.K. and Ireland were noticeably missing. Today Vice President Mike Pence announced that will soon change, “The President has made a decision to suspend all travel to the UK and Ireland effective midnight Monday night EST.”
BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence announced the U.S. will extend travel restriction to the UK and Ireland beginning Monday at midnight, with U.S. citizens and legal residents allowed to return but will be funneled through specific airports. https://t.co/GT4dAelUpf pic.twitter.com/IM9Suz5qEa
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) March 14, 2020
This comes after the BBC reports that UK deaths doubled in 24 hours:
Ten more people in the UK have died in the last 24 hours after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 21.
The UK government’s chief medical adviser said the patients were all in “at-risk” groups from across England.
The total number of confirmed cases in the UK has reached 1,140 while 37,746 people have been tested.