CDC adds 10 new destinations to COVID-19 Highest Do Not Travel Advisory

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added 10 new destinations to its highest “Level 4” COVID-19 travel warning list, including Caribbean Islands of Greneda and St. Kitts and Nevis.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Updated travel guides published weekly; A destination is designated as having a Level 4 “very high” level of transmission if it records 500 or more new cases per 100,000 people over a 28-day period. Americans are advised to avoid travel to any place in the Level 4 category.

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In addition to Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis, the CDC has also raised Afghanistan, Albania, Belize, Israel, Lithuania, Mauritius, Serbia and Slovenia to the highest travel advisory level. Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis are just two of the Caribbean islands currently listed under the highest travel advisory; the Bahamas, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Lucia and Aruba are all currently classified as Level 4.

Although the CDC recommends that Americans Avoid travel to Alert Level 4 areasThe agency recommends that those who must travel get vaccinated beforehand to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19, especially in The highly contagious Delta variant.

The CDC also raised the epidemic level of Australia, Ethiopia and Romania from Level 2 to Level 3, indicating that the COVID-19 epidemic in these countries is at a “high” level; the agency recommends that anyone traveling to Level 3 destinations must be fully vaccinated, and unvaccinated people should avoid non-essential travel to these places.

While travel to areas with extremely high COVID-19 transmission rates is risky for vaccinated travelers, it is even more unsafe for unvaccinated people, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends that unvaccinated travelers avoid any international travel immediately.

Anyone travelling should stay up to date with government and health regulations, advice and local guidance. Including wearing masks and maintaining social distancetesting and vaccination.

So far, there has been no mandatory vaccination requirement for airline passengers in the United States, but Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said he would support requiring everyone who flies to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “I support that if you want to travel on an airplane with other people, you should get vaccinated,” Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the president’s chief medical adviser, told CNN. Skemm.

However, the U.S. Travel Association does not agree with the infectious disease expert’s views. The president of the association issued a statement in response: “The U.S. Travel Association has always insisted that vaccinations should not be mandatory for domestic travel. Such a policy would have an unfair negative impact on families with young children who are not yet eligible for vaccination.”