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Amid COVID-19, International Athletes Navigate A Reinstated Travel Ban<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Biden administration\u2019s decision on Jan. 25 to reimpose the travel ban on European countries, with the addition of South Africa and Brazil, has significantly affected the experience of international college athletes in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ban, first imposed by the Trump administration, was set to expire on Jan. 26. Biden\u2019s proclamation renewed the ban effective Jan. 30 and will continue until the President chooses to terminate it. It will bar entry to travelers from Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Schengen area, which contains 26 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 20,000 international student-athletes compete and study in NCAA institutions in the United States. According to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/about\/resources\/inclusion\/international-student-athletes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">map<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the travel ban will directly affect just over half of those athletes.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ban is intended to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the variant strains <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B.1.351 and B.1.1.7. While the restrictions will hopefully help to stifle the nationwide flow of the virus, they will also alter the lives of international athletes stuck far from their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the initial COVID-19 outbreak in the United States in March 2020, <strong>Jeanri Buys<\/strong> returned to her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa for the first time in seven months.. Upon her return to the country, Buys entered a 14-day self quarantine, which became government mandated just days later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly three months after her return to South Africa, the Trump administration\u2019s travel ban was announced. A rising sophomore swimmer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Buys barely caught a flight back into the United States before the ban took full effect. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buys said she initially felt scared and then confused when she heard about the ban\u2019s renewal under the Biden administration. She quickly learned that her flight home in early May had been canceled and she was informed that her return flight would soon follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn&#8217;t know what was going to happen,&#8221; Buys said. &#8220;I didn\u2019t know if that meant I couldn\u2019t go home, or I couldn\u2019t come back here, or what the deal was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, Buys found an alternate flight home with Emirates airlines, which is based in Garhoud, Dubai. The new flight is more expensive and will add roughly seven hours to her trip, but it allows her to get home at the same time as she initially planned. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the flight, Buys plans to get tested for COVID-19, and is required to fill out a health survey 48 hours prior to departure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with many other international athletes, Buys maintains her residency in the US with an F-1 student visa. It\u2019s this visa that should allow her re-entry into the country in the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But nothing is a guarantee during a pandemic. Buys keeps in contact with various South African athletes across the nation, and says many of her friends were not able to find a flight home.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She says some athletes are traveling home later in the summer with hopes that their flights won\u2019t be canceled, while others are choosing not to return to South Africa for fear they won\u2019t be able to re-enter the United States in the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronatracker.com\/country\/south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Africa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> currently sports a 90.5% recovery rate and 3.1% fatality rate in contrast to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronatracker.com\/country\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States\u2019 <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">62.2% recovery rate and 1.7 percent fatality rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout progressing in the United States, it seems international athletes will have to hold their breaths as to whether the travel ban will be lifted before the beginning of the fall semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck? 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