The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on the 3rd that it will not issue travel advisories related to COVID-19 in the future.
“There are fewer and fewer countries testing or reporting confirmed cases of COVID-19,” the CDC said in a statement.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has divided travel warnings into four levels according to the COVID-19 situation in each country.
In February, the travel alert for Korea was upgraded from ‘Level 3: High’ to ‘Level 4: Very High’. Level 4 is the area the CDC recommends avoiding travel to.
However, two months later, the CDC lowered the COVID-19-related travel warning for 90 countries, including South Korea, from Level 4, the highest level, to Level 3. couldn’t pull
The CDC said, “We will issue a travel advisory for the country only if circumstances are identified that require changes to travel recommendations, such as the spread of COVID-19 mutations.”