After Brazil logged its deadliest day from coronavirus, President Donald Trump said he would consider implementing a travel ban to the South American country, CNBC reports.
“We are considering it. We hope that we are not going to have a problem,” Trump told reporters at the White House late Tuesday. “I don’t want people coming over here and infecting our people. I don’t want people over there sick either. We are helping Brazil with ventilators … Brazil is having some trouble, no question about it.”
Brazil’s daily death toll spiked to 1,179 on Tuesday. The country’s highest death count previously was 881 deaths on May 12, according to Reuters.
Brazil has reported 271,000 COVID-19 cases and 17,983 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The country has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security extended nonessential travel restrictions at U.S. land borders with Mexico and Canada through June 22.
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