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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week listed Norway as a country with a “very high” risk of travel after the Scandinavian nation lifted its COVID-19 pandemic restrictions last week. The CDC now designates the country “Level 4: COVID-19 Very High,” according to its website. “Avoid travel to Norway,” the CDC’s website said in an update Monday about Norway, the country with the highest human development index in the world. “If you must travel to Norway, make sure you are fully vaccinated before travel.” Norway announced the removal of all its CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its list of the riskiest countries for travel due to increasing cases of Covid-19. Curiously, vaccination has had totally the opposite effect to what had been expected: 12 of the 13 countries on the Johns Hopkins list of the most vaccinated are currently listed by the CDC as “high” or even “very high” SARS-Cov-2 travel risk.The CDC distinguishes between five risk levels: very high, high, moderate, low, and unknown. On August 2, the CDC stated: “Avoid travel to these destinations. If you must travel to these destinations, make sure you...

Germany no longer classifies some regions, including the United States, Canada and Austria, as areas of a high coronavirus risk, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said on Friday. The RKI listed 19 countries and regions that are “no longer considered risk areas” thanks to their low coronavirus infection rates. Countries that have been removed from the travel risk list include Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Kosovo, Lebanon, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and the US. Some regions in Portugal, Norway, Croatia, Greece and Switzerland are also no longer considered risk regions by Germany....