washington us presidentelect joe bidens spokeswoman quickly dismissed donald trumps announcement monday that a covid19 ban on travelers arriving from much of europe and brazil would be lifted underlining the fractious transition of poweron the advice of our medical team the administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 126 tweeted jen psaki bidens press secretaryin fact we plan to strengthen public health measures around international travel in order to further mitigate the spread of covid19with the pandemic worsening and more contagious variants emerging around the world this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel she addedjust minutes prior to psakis tweet president trump said in a statement he would lift the travel ban on europe and brazil travel bans for china and iran would remain in place he saidboth statements come days after the centers for disease control and prevention cdc announced that all air passengers bound for the us are required to test negative for covid19 within three days of their departurebiden will be inaugurated on wednesday after a rocky handover of powertrump for months had refused to accept the outcome of the november 3 election baselessly insisting the vote had been rigged and ignoring court rulings to the contraryhe denied bidens team access to funds and resources and has not met with him as is customary in presidential transitionstrump is also set to become the first outgoing president in 152 years not to join his successor at the inauguration ceremonyas of monday the us had recorded more than 24 million cases of covid19 with nearly 400000 deaths