President-elect Joe Biden will overturn a decision by President Donald Trump to ease pandemic travel prohibitions that were set to take effect Jan. 26, according to reports early Tuesday.

The planned lifting of COVID restrictions falls on the same day a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directive requiring negative tests for air travelers entering the U.S. takes effect.

Trump is set to leave the White House on Wednesday. Restrictions on travel from China and Iran were to have remained in place, according to his directive.

"With the coronavirus pandemic worsening, and more infectious variants emerging around the world, this is not the time to be easing restrictions on international travel," Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki said.

The pandemic restrictions that Trump revoked banned almost all non-U.S. citizens who, within the past 14 days, had traveled to Europe, Brazil, Ireland and the Schengen Area in Europe that have allowed travel across open borders.

Trump said health and human services secretary Alex Azar recommended lifting restrictions on travel from most parts of Brazil and the UK.

Trump agreed with Azar's recommendation that it was the "best way to continue protecting Americans from COVID while enabling travel to resume safely."

Marty Cetron, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's international migration and quarantine division, said Tuesday entry restrictions were an "opening act strategy" to address the spread of coronavirus and should now be "actively reconsidered."

According to a centers' report, the variant detected in Europe had been reported in at least 10 U.S. states as of Wednesday last week and thought to be more contagious but not any more lethal.

More than 2 million people worldwide have died from COVID, based on data from Johns Hopkins University.

More than 399,800 fatalities and more than 24 million infections have been reported in the U.S., based on a NBC News' count.