Josh Lederman, a national political reporter for NBC News, joined Hallie Jackson on MSNBC on Wednesday to break the news that the U.S. will reintroduce Covid-19 travel restrictions from China. “Beginning Jan. 5th at 12:01 a.m., they will begin requiring a negative COVID test pre-departure from anyone coming from China. It doesn’t matter if you’re Chinese, American, or anything else,” Lederman began, adding:

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