US will boost 'do not travel' advisories to 80% of world due to Covid-19 cases surge
The US State Department said on Monday it will support its "Don't Travel" direction to about 80% of nations around the world, refering to "extraordinary danger to voyagers" from the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting The State Department has effectively recorded 34 out of around 200 nations as "Level 4: Do Not Travel," including places like Chad, Kosovo, Kenya, Brazil, Argentina, Haiti, Mozambique, Russia and Tanzania. "This update will bring about a huge expansion in the quantity of nations at Level 4: Do Not Travel, to around 80% of nations around the world," the office said in an explanation. Getting to 80% would suggest adding almost 130 nations. The State Department said the move doesn't suggest a reassessment of ebb and flow wellbeing circumstances in certain nations, yet rather "mirrors a change in the State Department's Travel Advisory framework to depend more on (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's) existin...