CDC drops traveler health notices for individual countries
The CDC is doing away with notices about the COVID-19 risk of visiting specific countries
By AP News
Published - Oct 03, 2022, 07:42 PM ET
Last Updated - Jun 24, 2023, 04:47 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is scrapping another of its responses to the pandemic.
On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing early in the pandemic.
The reason: Fewer countries are testing for the virus or reporting the number of COVID-19 cases. That limits the CDC’s ability to calculate travelers' risk, according to the agency.
CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said the agency will only post a travel health notice for an individual country if a situation such as a troubling new variant of the virus changes CDC travel recommendations for that country.
