U.S. lifts global health coronavirus travel advisory

By David Shepardson and Doina Chiacu

 

FILE PHOTO: Passengers walk past artwork between terminals at IAH George Bush Intercontinental Airport amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Thursday lifted global advisories recommending U.S. citizens avoid all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead issued a raft of high-level warnings for individual countries.

 

"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," the State Department said in a statement lifting its "Do Not Travel" advisory.

 

The CDC also dropped its global advisory recommending against all nonessential international travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nearly all countries remain on its highest Level 3 advisory to avoid all non-essential travel.

 

A few countries, including Thailand, New Zealand and Fiji, were put on a low risk Level 1 advisory.

 

U.S. airline stocks rose on the announcement.

 

The State Department issued updated country-travel specific alerts, including "Level Four: Do Not Travel" advisories for about 30 countries, including India, Russia, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Haiti, Iran, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Honduras and Libya.

 

The State Department also issued numerous new "Level 3: reconsider travel" advisories, including for members of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Armenia, the Philippines, Laos and Australia.

 

The United States has barred most non-U.S. citizens from many parts of the world from traveling to the United States, including from the EU and China. China has been on the State Department's "Do Not Travel" advisory since June.

 

The State Department first issued the Global Level 4 "Do Not Travel" Health Advisory on March 19, while CDC imposed its highest "Level 3" on March 27.

The United States remains in talks with the EU in a bid to allow most Americans to resume travel to Europe.

 

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and David Shepardson; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Richard Pullin)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-08-07

 

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If you are in the US right now...far safer to travel to somewhere else...the only problem is nobody will let you in

Most country’s won’t let us in because of our lousy handeling of the carona virus go figure oh well guess old donald got his Wall after all except it keeps us in not others out lol oh how ironic ..............

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by Tug

Keep them Yankees out I say. They are riddled with virus and refuse to comply with regulations. We don't want them here.

4 hours ago, brommers said:

Keep them Yankees out I say. They are riddled with virus and refuse to comply with regulations. We don't want them here.

Too late. Already here.

Yep, perfect. That is really the right country to put travel recommendations and warning about other destinations. If you are a citizen of the USA, then you are bound to be safer by fleeing to almost any other country in the world except South Africa and UK. ????????

1 hour ago, Mac98 said:

Too late. Already here.

Your´re welcome! ???? 

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Most country’s won’t let us in because of our lousy handeling of the carona virus go figure oh well guess old donald got his Wall after all except it keeps us in not others out lol oh how ironic ..............

Stellar comment!