{"id":463284,"date":"2026-05-23T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463284\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:13:15","slug":"world-cup-2026-dr-congo-squad-told-to-isolate-before-entering-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463284\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: DR Congo squad told to isolate before entering US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US has banned entry from non-Americans who have been in the DR Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All DR Congo&#8217;s players are based outside the country and will not be affected by the restrictions now the training camp has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If there are other people that are going to be coming in, they need to have a separate bubble from that team,&#8221; Giuliani said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If they end up coming, and any of those people end up symptomatic, they are risking the entire team being able to come and compete in this World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday the public health risk from the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo was raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7p30m1dn1o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from &#8220;high&#8221; to &#8220;very high&#8221;<\/a> by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk in the wider region in Africa was &#8220;high&#8221; but that it remained &#8220;low&#8221; globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Congo are due to play friendlies against Denmark on 3 June in Belgium and Chile on 9 June in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Cup runs from 11 June to 19 July, and DR Congo play Portugal in their opening game on 17 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US has banned entry from non-Americans who have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-463284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}