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Devastating news for many vacation hotspots that would have welcomed Americans with open arms this season.
Matthew Parsons
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cautioned on Monday versus travel to Greece, Ireland, Iran, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other locations due to the fact that of an increasing number of Covid-19 cases in those locations.
Other locations being raised to the CDC’s “Level 4: Prevent Travel” include Libya, Kazakhstan, Andorra, Saint Barthelemy, Lesotho, Martinique, Malta, the Isle of Male and Curacao, the CDC said.
Likewise, the State Department on Monday raised its advisories to “Level 4– Do Not Travel” for locations including Curacao, the French West Indies, Greece, Ireland, Kazakhstan and the Marshall Islands.
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In early April, the State Department noted 34 nations as “Level 4: Do Not Travel,” and after that added more than 100 countries to better line up with CDC scores.
After taking numerous countries off its greatest warning level considering that June, the U.S. has actually been including more nations back due to the fact that of rising Covid-19 cases. It currently lists about 90 at the highest caution level.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Modifying by Leslie Adler)
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