Amid growing public anxiety over the novel coronavirus, President Trump announced that the United States is suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for a month, starting Friday.

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Amid growing public anxiety over the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump announced an extraordinary ban on some travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days and called for a series of stimulus measures to blunt the economic side effects of the virus.

"To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days," Trump declared during a prime-time address to the nation from the Oval Office Wednesday night.

The new travel restrictions will take effect Friday at midnight, but Trump's order does not ban all travel from Europe.

The Trump administration is restricting travel to the U.S. by certain foreign nationals who have traveled to any of the 26 European countries identified in the past 14 days before coming to the U.S. Restrictions exempt U.S. citizens, permanent residents and foreign nationals who are immediate family members such as the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have undergone appropriate screenings.

Following his address, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced the president's events in Nevada and Colorado would be canceled "Out of an abundance of caution." Trump had been set to travel to Nevada on Thursday.

A campaign event set to feature the president, scheduled for March 19 in Milwaukee, was also postponed, Tim Murtagh, the Trump campaign's communications director, announced on Twitter.

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