{"id":434928,"date":"2021-04-20T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434928"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:50:28","slug":"us-issues-do-not-travel-guidance-to-80-of-countries-cites-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-issues-do-not-travel-guidance-to-80-of-countries-cites-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"US Issues \u2018Do Not Travel\u2019 Guidance To 80% Of Countries, Cites COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-issues-do-not-travel-guidance-to-80-of-countries-cites-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434928&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The State Department is expanding the \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d guidelines for U.S. citizens to include nearly 80% of countries because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The travel advisories will be updated to align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) health notices as travelers are at risk because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/travel-advisory-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis update will result in a significant increase in the number of countries at Level 4: Do Not Travel, to approximately 80% of countries worldwide,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The State Department is adding 80% of countries to its \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d list \u2014 jumping from 34 to about 130.<\/p>\n<p>It says the change is to better match CDC assessments. The WHO has warned global cases are \u201capproaching the highest rate of infection\u201d since the pandemic started. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZztEOnebVh\">pic.twitter.com\/ZztEOnebVh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajplus\/status\/1384500480185884675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The update is meant to restructure State Department guidelines to mirror those of the CDC, not as a review of the health situations in other countries, the department said in a statement. The department will consider the availability of in-country <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/27\/biden-administration-covid-19-mandatory-testing-domestic-flights-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testing<\/a> and restrictions against U.S. citizens when issuing travel advisories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months,\u201d The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19-16-april-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> Friday. \u201cThis is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some countries are experiencing an increase in positive cases despite previously containing widespread transmission, according to the WHO. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/25\/biden-trump-covid-travel-ban-south-africa-brazil-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden To Revoke Trump\u2019s Planned End To COVID-19 Travel Bans, Will Add South Africa)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listing 80% of all countries would mean declaring nearly 130 nations as a Level 4 risk, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/us-put-more-countries-under-covid-do-not-travel-advisory-state-department-2021-04-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Around 34 of the countries already included on the list are Russia, Kenya, Brazil, Haiti and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all non-citizens with recent travel to Europe, China, Brazil, Iran and South Africa are not allowed to enter the U.S. and most European countries won\u2019t receive American travelers due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/20\/coronavirus-mutation-united-kingdom-prompts-several-countries-europe-ban-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department is expanding the \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d guidelines for U.S. citizens to include nearly 80% of countries because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency announced Monday.The travel advisories &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}