Fauci: U.S. reevaluating African travel restrictions "daily"

• The United States restricted air travel from south African countries in November in an effort to curtail a new wave of infection from the Omicron coronavirus variant.

What they're saying: The "ban was done at a time when we were really in the dark," Fauci told host CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper.

• "We had no idea what was going on except this seemed to have been an explosion of cases in South Africa," he added.
• "We all feel very badly about the hardship that might have [been] put upon not only South Africa but the other African countries."

Fauci also said that the data was "encouraging regarding the severity" of Omicron but cautioned that it was "too early" to make any definitive statements.

"We really gotta be careful before we make any determinations that it is less severe or really doesn't cause any severe illness comparable to Delta," he said.