CDC Gives Italy An ‘Avoid Travel’ Warning Due To Covid-19
The CDC has put Italy on its “keep away from journey” checklist because of elevated unfold of Covid-19.
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In what has grow to be a tragic Monday ritual, yesterday the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) upgraded three extra nations to a Stage 4 journey well being discover, reflecting the continued worldwide unfold of Covid-19.
Italy, Greenland and the island of Mauritius are the newest locations to obtain a Stage 4 designation, the very best of 4 threat classes. A Stage 4 journey well being discover signifies {that a} nation is reporting greater than 500 new Covid-19 infections per 28 days per 100,000 folks. That stage of an infection is deemed to current a “very excessive” Covid-19 threat and People are warned to “keep away from journey,” per CDC steerage.
Final week, the CDC put France, Portugal and 5 different locations on Stage 4.
As of right now, 84 nations around the globe are at Stage 4 on the CDC’s Covid-19 risk map. It’s price noting that the USA additionally meets the factors for a Stage 4 journey well being discover, bringing the true tally to 85 nations with an “keep away from journey” label.
America has been shaded darkish pink on the CDC’s world map for a lot of the pandemic. The U.S. is recording 36 new each day circumstances per 100,000 over a rolling seven-day common, in line with the Covid-19 tracker from the Brown School of Public Health. That interprets to round 1,008 new each day circumstances per 28 days per 100,000 folks, which is twice the CDC’s threshold for Stage 4 journey well being discover.
The Italian authorities has prolonged the Covid-19 state of emergency till December 31, 2021, and not too long ago issued extra restrictive journey guidelines via decree (the third of the pandemic) that is still in impact via January 15, 2022. America is on Italy’s “D Checklist,” which implies vacationers should present proof of vaccination inside the previous 9 months or proof of restoration of Covid. Most Italian sights and companies, together with museums, indoor eating, theaters and leisure venues, require proof of vaccination standing. Those that don’t current the right proof should quarantine for 5 days.
Earlier this month, the U.S. tightened its personal testing necessities for worldwide vacationers arriving within the nation, together with returning People. All worldwide arrivals, vaccinated and unvaccinated, want to supply a unfavourable check for Covid-19 not more than in the future earlier than boarding their flight.
The newest weekly epidemiological update from the World Well being Group (WHO) reported simply over 4 million new circumstances around the globe, which is roughly on par with the earlier week.
Covid-19 circumstances lastly plateaued within the European area, the place that they had been on the rise since early October. Final week noticed roughly the identical variety of new Covid circumstances as in comparison with the earlier week, with an enormous drop within the variety of European nations reporting a double-digit improve in new weekly circumstances. Whereas Germany and the UK continued to report the very best numbers of recent circumstances, they remained flat over the earlier week. In distinction, France reported the third highest variety of new circumstances, up 49% from the earlier week.
