The State Department has issued parallel “Do not travel” advice to both countries.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US State Department on Monday advised against traveling to Germany and Denmark because of the increasing number of COVID-19 infections in these countries.
The CDC raised its travel recommendation to “Level 4: Very High” for two European countries, telling Americans they should avoid traveling there, while the State Department issued a “No.” travel” parallel for both countries.
CDC currently lists around 75 destinations worldwide at Level Four, with many European countries on the list including Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, Romania, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. .
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders in her conservative party that measures taken to stem the spread of the coronavirus in Europe’s largest economy are not enough and action is needed. stronger, Reuters reported on Monday.
The number of cases in Germany has skyrocketed, especially among elderly people who got their first two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at the start of the year and among children who are not eligible for the shot.
Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said European countries must do more to prevent the coronavirus from spreading further as the number of deaths and new cases soars.
WHO’s Hans Kluge warns current transmission rates in 53 European countries are at “worrying” levels and new cases are at near-record levels, exacerbated by the potentially contagious Delta variant. higher transmission of the virus, WHO’s Hans Kluge warns.
“We have to change our tactics, from responding to the rise of COVID-19, to preventing them from happening in the first place,” he said.
Germany has decided to restrict much of public life in areas where hospitals are full of COVID-19 patients.
Neighboring Austria on Monday imposed a full COVID-19 lockdown after announcing several new restrictions last week. Germany’s Acting Health Minister Jens Spahn warned on Friday that Germany could follow suit.
CDC has privately downgraded its COVID-19 travel advice from Level Four to “Level Three: Low” for Israel, Aruba, US Virgin Islands, Curacao and Guadeloupe.
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