France, Portugal And 5 Other Countries Get ‘Avoid Travel’ Warning Due To Covid-19
Mais non. France has been added to the CDC’s “keep away from journey” listing.
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Yesterday the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention upgraded seven international locations throughout Europe, Africa and the Center East to a Stage 4 journey well being discover, reflecting upticks within the unfold of Covid-19.
5 of the seven new additions to the Stage 4 listing are in Europe. These embody tourism powerhouses France and Portugal, in addition to Liechtenstein, Cyprus and Andorra. Tanzania and Jordan have been additionally added to the Stage 4 listing.
The very best of 4 danger 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 individuals. That degree of an infection is deemed to current a “very excessive” Covid-19 danger and People are warned to “keep away from journey,” per CDC steering.
As of at the moment, 83 international locations all over the world are at Stage 4 on the CDC’s Covid-19 risk map. Notably, if the CDC may add its personal nation — america — the tally could be 84.
America has been shaded darkish crimson on the CDC’s world map for a lot of the pandemic. The U.S. is recording 36 new day by day circumstances per 100,000 over a rolling seven-day common, in keeping with the Covid-19 tracker from the Brown School of Public Health. That interprets to round 1,008 new day by day circumstances per 28 days per 100,000 individuals, which is twice the CDC’s threshold for Stage 4 journey well being discover.
France just lately added an extra hoop for American vacationers to leap by means of. Since December 4, all vacationers arriving from the U.S., no matter vaccination standing, should current proof of a adverse Covid PCR or antigen take a look at consequence taken inside 48 hours of boarding their flight, per the French government. Notably, unvaccinated American vacationers can not go to France besides beneath sure circumstances, corresponding to for important work or research.
The U.S. has additionally tightened its personal testing necessities for worldwide vacationers arriving within the nation, together with returning People. Since December 6, all worldwide arrivals, vaccinated and unvaccinated, want to offer a adverse take a look at 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 3.8 million new circumstances all over the world.
Covid-19 circumstances have been on the rise within the European area since early October, with a 7% improve as in comparison with the earlier week and 38% of European international locations reporting a double-digit improve in new weekly circumstances.
Following a declining development since late June 2021, new circumstances in Africa exploded by 93% in the course of the week of November 22. Notably, 43% of the brand new circumstances have been from a batch reporting of antigen assessments from South Africa, the place the omicron variant was first found.
