As the omicron variant blankets the globe, the CDC has raised three dozen countries to Level 4 in just the past several weeks.
scaping the North American winter during the Covid-19 pandemic just got a bit trickier, as the United States put five popular Caribbean destinations and one Central American favorite on its ‘Avoid Travel’ list.
The nine other countries with a newly raised warning are Colombia, Fiji, Kuwait, Mongolia, Niger, Peru, Romania, United Arab Emirates and Tunisia. The highest of four risk categories, a Level 4 travel health notice signifies that a country is reporting more than 500 new Covid-19 infections per 28 days per 100,000 people. That level of infection is deemed to present a “very high” Covid-19 risk and Americans are warned to “avoid travel,” per CDC guidance. tallied a whopping 18 million new cases around the world, a 20% increase, as compared to the previous week.. That’s up from 88 just before the Christmas holidays.
Travel, and particularly international travel, does not appear to be a priority for most Americans right now. Amid rising Covid-19 cases worldwide, just under four in 10 Americans say they are comfortable flying domestically and only a quarter of Americans are comfortable with flying internationally, according to the most recent. Overall, 55% of Americans say they are comfortable going on vacation right now, which is down 8 points since a mid-October survey.
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