In its latest update to COVID-19 travel recommendations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added six countries to its list of level three “high risk” nations.
The July 25 update added Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador, Fiji, Honduras, and Poland to the high risk category.
The CDC has now added 18 nations in total to the high risk list during the month of July. The other 12 nations added in that period are Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Lebanon, Peru, Tunisia, Guatemala, Morocco, and Sweden.
The CDC updated its COVID-19 travel health notice system on April 18, reserving level four for “special circumstances, such as rapidly escalating case trajectory or extremely high case counts, emergence of a new variant of concern, and healthcare infrastructure collapse,” the agency stated….