The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated travel advice criteria and reclassified 89 nations
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in US (CDC) on Monday 18th updated and removed Brazil from the list of countries deemed not recommended for travel due to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid19. A total of 89 nations including Great Britain, France, Japan, Russia and Brazil achieved level 3 of the categories, described as high risk. In this new phase, the only recommendation people wishing to set foot on American soil should follow is to get vaccinated against Covid. With this update, the list of nonrecommended countries is empty. The US classification has two additional categories: Level 2: medium risk and Level 1: low risk. Despite the change, the CDC still recommends Americans avoid traveling to Brazil, even if they are vaccinated.
In a statement, the control center explained that Category 4, where Brazil was, is used only with countries experiencing a rapid escalation in daily cases, the emergence of a new variant, or a collapse in the local healthcare system. “. Historically, all nations that recorded more than 500 daily cases per 100,000 population were classified as nonrecommended. “We believe the updated framework will help Americans make more informed decisions about the safety of international travel,” she added. The United States is currently experiencing a peak in the number of infections. In the last few weeks, 27 of the 50 US states have registered a deterioration in the number of infections.