Trump Again Unleashes on 'Cryin' Chuck Schumer
Establishment GOP Scrambling to Fend Off MAGA Insurgent Nate Morris
How Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Intends to Nuke the Dems' Plan to Block...
Ted Cruz Says What Everyone’s Been Whispering About Biden for Years
She Blamed Trump for Rising Prices—His Clapback Was Brutal
Nancy Mace Just Made a Huge Announcement
This Is How a Dating App Turned Romance Into a Battleground
Californians Making Us Proud Following Ninth Circuit Decision
Newsom to California Voters: Let Me Rig the Maps Like Texas
Illegal Alien With Multiple Arrests Kills Mom and Daughter in New Jersey Crash
Trump’s Border Policy Is Doing What Biden Never Could
'Operation Seek and Ye Shall Find Out' Arrests 48 Child Predators
A United Airlines Flight Declared 'Mayday' Shortly After Takeoff
President Trump Is Passing a Moral Litmus Test That Many Others Are Failing
Trump: Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Campaign Is the 'Hottest' Ad Around
Tipsheet

CDC Adds Over 20 Countries to Travel Warning List

AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added 22 countries to its advisory list against travel on Tuesday. The countries are now listed under the highest warning level, level 4, due to rising cases of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Advertisement

According to a report from Reuters, some of the countries are Israel, Australia, Albania, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Qatar, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Suriname, Egypt, Saint Lucia, and Bolivia.

“The level 4 rating now has more than 100 countries as nations struggle to combat the highly contagious omicron variant,” The Hill reported. “The CDC advises that level 4 countries be avoided at all costs and a person be fully vaccinated if they do have to go to them.”

In November, President Biden instituted travel restrictions to several nations in south Africa, where the Omicron variant emerged. This occurred around the time the first Omicron case in the United States was discovered in San Francisco. The individual infected had traveled to the U.S. from an African country days prior. 

A month later, Biden rescinded the travel restrictions, as I covered, as cases continued to climb. The travel restrictions officially ended on Friday, Dec. 31.

Advertisement

“The travel restrictions imposed by that proclamation [banning travel to African countries] are no longer necessary to protect the public health," Biden said in a proclamation. "Since I issued that proclamation, our Nation's health officials, in collaboration with the South African scientists who originally reported the variant, have made substantial progress in understanding the Omicron variant.”

Earlier this month, the CDC issued a warning against traveling to Canada, citing “very high” levels of COVID-19.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement