The United States included Italy in its list of high-risk countries for COVID-19

Health authorities in the United States have placed Italy, Greenland and Mauritius on the list of high-risk destinations. when making trips due to the situation of the coronavirus in said territories.

In its weekly update, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have included these nations in the “Level four: COVID-19 very high”.

The main criteria that the CDC follows to include countries in this category is that they exceed 500 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 28 days, pick up the television network CNN.

Thus, Italy joins the list in which it is already France, which was listed at level four last week. These four countries mentioned are in the category of very high risk along with others such as Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Jordan, Seychelles or Turkey.

“Avoid traveling to France”, was the recommendation of the State Department to the Americans last week, at a time when the end of the year festivities threatened by the new Omicron variant are approaching.

“In fact in the current situation (related to COVID-19) in France, even fully vaccinated travelers are at risk of becoming infected and spreading the variants”, added the CDC, the main health entity in the United States.

On the other hand, new measures for international travelers were also announced last week: All Americans, whether or not they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, must present a negative test carried out 24 hours before in order to enter the country. Foreign travelers, from any other country, in addition to the negative test must be vaccinated to enter the United States.

(With information from Europa Press and AFP)

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