Vacationers ought to keep away from most locations as a consequence of COVID-19 ranges
Each day COVID-19 circumstances could also be trending down throughout the globe, however federal well being officers advise U.S. vacationers to keep away from practically 60% of worldwide locations due to the virus.
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention added 4 Asian nations – Bhutan, Brunei, Iran and Malaysia – to its “stage 4” journey well being discover this week, a set of locations with “very excessive” ranges of COVID-19.
“Keep away from journey to those locations,” the CDC says on its web site. “In case you should journey to those locations, be sure you are absolutely vaccinated earlier than journey.”
The 4 nations be a part of 136 different locations listed below the stage 4 class, together with common vacationer spots reminiscent of Jamaica, Germany and Mexico. Stage 1, nations with low ranges of COVID-19, lists six locations.
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Bigger nations are thought-about to have very excessive COVID-19 ranges after they report greater than 500 new circumstances per 100,000 individuals over the previous 28 days. Locations with a inhabitants of 100,000 or fewer should report greater than 500 cumulative new circumstances over the previous 28 days.
Different modifications to the CDC’s journey steering embody:
- New Zealand moved from stage 2 to stage 3.
- Timor-Leste (East Timor) moved from stage 1 to stage 3.
- Namibia moved from stage 4 to stage 3.
- Kenya and Nigeria moved from stage 3 to stage 2.
- Madeira Islands moved from stage 2 to an unknown stage.
As of Tuesday, the CDC’s stage 4 record consists of:
- Albania
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- The Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guernsey
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Iran
- Iraq
- Eire
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey (a part of the U.Okay.)
- Jordan
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- The Netherlands
- Niger
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Réunion
- Romania
- Russia
- St. Barts
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Martin
- St. Pierre and Miquelon
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
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