Up to 8,000 Chinese nationals came into US

Thousands of Chinese people are estimated to have reached the U.S. after President Trump prohibited travel to foreign nationals in January, returning from China after the coronavirus outbreak.

According to a recent report by The Associated Press, it provided data on travel from the U.S. Over the past three months, as many as 8,000 Chinese citizens and overseas residents in Hong Kong and Macau have joined the U.S.

More than 600 airlines have carried passengers from these countries since Trump declared his immigration ban at the end of January and passed Feb. 2.

Trump ‘s initial travel ban included any non-US travel bans. Travelers arriving from China and leaving those traveling from Hong Kong or Macau at the end of January.

Travelers from Hong Kong and Macau were also not faced with the same monitoring or inspection procedure as Americans or any foreign national traveling to the U.S. despite having been in Wuhan — where the coronavirus epidemic began.

FlightAware flight data given to The Associated Press shows that 5,600 Chinese and international nationals from Hong Kong and Macau landed in the United States in February. More than 2,000 passengers from the same administrative areas arrived in March and another 150 in April, according to the AP report.

There is not enough data to prove people on these coronavirus-borne planes, but the National Security Council, the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS) did not officially comment on whether these regions were excluded from China’s travel ban.

One government official told the AP that a immigration ban had been imposed after more than 12,000 immigrants had arrived in the U.S. from the two territories in January, according to Commerce Reports.

The Trump administration announced that it would still allow any American who flew across China and returned to the U.S. to undergo a quarantine period of 14 days.

Nevertheless, according to statistics obtained by The Associated Press, the program designed to identify and control individuals under quarantine has lost track of at least 1,600 Americans.

Trump claimed his border closures, first from China, then European nations, and Brazil, as the U.S.’s first line of defense against the coronavirus.

Last week, in a tweet. The President said, “We did a fine job on Coronavirus, including a very early ban on China.”

“They saved millions of lives in the U.S. Yet the Fake News continues to recognize that in a constructive manner, “he said.

Trump’s travel ban on China came into full effect on February 2, when 15 people had already been diagnosed with coronavirus in Hong Kong and seven people in Macau.

The Macau cases were later related directly to Wuhan, the site of the outbreak.

The U.S. reported more than 2.7 million coronavirus infections and almost 130,000 deaths during the pandemic.

Since then, Hong Kong has banned all travelers from the United States.