CDC designates three destinations as ‘high’ COVID-19 travel risks
June 13 (UPI) — The Facilities for Ailment Handle and Avoidance on Monday extra 3 destinations to its “superior” COVID-19 chance class.
Mexico, New Caledonia and United Arab Emirates ended up extra to the “Stage 3: Higher” category, the best hazard classification determined by new COVID-19 cases.
Destinations in Degree 3 have documented additional than 100 new COVID-19 scenarios for every 100,000 residents in the past 28 days.
Mexico and UAE were beforehand designated as “Stage 2: Moderate” COVID-19 vacation hazards and New Caledonia was formerly categorized as unknown, that means the CDC did not have enough data about the virus in the state to assign it a class.
About 115 destinations ended up selected as Level 3 risks on Monday.
Earlier in the pandemic, “Degree 4: Quite Significant” was the greatest COVID-19 designation but in April the company taken off all nations from the classification and renamed it to “Amount 4: Exclusive Conditions/Do Not Journey,” reserving it for “special situation, these as swiftly escalating circumstance trajectory or extremely higher circumstance counts, emergence of a new variant of concern or health care infrastructure collapse.”
No places have been put in Amount 4 given that the transform.
Amount 2, which signifies 50-100 new COVID-19 cases for every 100,000 residents in the previous 28 times, also saw a few new additions Monday, bringing the complete in the class to 16.
Honduras and Saba were being downgraded from Amount 3, while Cape Verde was upgraded from Amount 1.
Cuba and Iraq on Monday were downgraded from Level 2 to “Amount 1: Reduced,” which consists of places that have documented 49 or fewer cases per 100,000 residents in the earlier 28 times.
