US Rescinds Global ‘Do Not Travel’ Coronavirus Warning

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FILE - Travelers make their ways to the south security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Denver. U.S. public health officials are revising their travel advisory information. So if Taiwan or Greenland are in your travel plans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you can go ahead and pack your bags. Previously, the agency told U.S. travelers to avoid all nonessential travel because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday rescinded its warnings to Americans against all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying conditions no longer warrant a blanket worldwide alert.

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The State Department lifted its level-four health advisory for the entire world in order to return to country-specific warnings. That move came shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its COVID-19 travel advisory information. The CDC lifted “do not travel” warnings for about 20 locations but advised staying away from the vast majority of the world.

“With health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the department is returning to our previous system of country-specific levels of travel advice in order to give travelers detailed and actionable information to make informed travel decisions,” the State Department said in a statement.

“This will also provide U.S. citizens more detailed information about the current status in each country,” it said. “We continue to recommend U.S. citizens exercise caution when traveling abroad due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic.”

The State Department invoked the blanket warning against all international travel on March 19 as the pandemic spread. The revised country-specific travel advice is available at https://travel.state.gov. However, Americans still face travel restrictions across the world because of the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in the country.

Earlier Thursday, the CDC revised its travel guidance, saying the changes were driven by how the virus was spreading in different places and how well the public health and health care systems were functioning in dealing with new cases.

Seven places, including Thailand, Fiji and New Zealand, are in a low-risk group, according to the CDC, although officials there advised that certain people, such as older adults and those with certain underlying medical conditions, talk to their doctors before making the trip. For more than a dozen other locations, it had no precautions. Taiwan, Greenland, and Laos are on that list.

But the CDC continues to advise against nonessential travel to more than 200 other international locations.


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AmericanYid
AmericanYid
3 years ago

Because of trump’s horrible mishandling of this national health emergency, no other countries want Americans to visit them! 2 week mandatory lockdowns for Americans coming into Israel, UK, Canada, EU ,and almost eveywhere on Earth. MAGA! MASK AWARENESS GOES ANYWHERE (except here).

henry reitzenstein
henry reitzenstein
3 years ago

hilarious….just ignore fact that we are so infected that we are banned from travelling to many popular destinations

achassidisheryid
achassidisheryid
3 years ago

Es Vet Asach Helfen.
Since Putins useful orange idiot has managed to make America Great, we now have 20% of the world’s COVID deaths, with only 5% of the worlds population., We are greater in deaths er capita than Taiwan, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Albania ,Cameroon, Finland, Norway, East Timor etc.
A US passport, signed by the UberChacham Pompeo, will now get you barred from most of the world. You cant even use it to get into Putin’s failed country.
It is what it is, but it will dissapear by shining UV light where the sun dont shine and by Easter, when Je. oh exuse me Trump rises,we will all be back to normal, which means only 15 cases under control, and it’s just like the flu, a DemocRAT hoax.
Ban the testing. Only ‘my people’ can get tested daily.
Keep drinking the Lyso.. er I mean the Kool Aid.