The United States did not coordinate on a sweeping restriction on European travel aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus with European officials before US President Donald Trump announced it on Wednesday, a European diplomat said.

“There was no heads-up, no coordination as the president claimed,” the diplomat said.

No comment was immediately available on the decision from the EU delegation in Washington.

Trump’s order curbing travel from Europe to the United States, except from Britain, beginning on Friday, could complicate already strained trade ties between Brussels and Washington.

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