Since early in the pandemic, the agency designated countries by their current coronavirus risk level, from 1 to 4.
The agency said its ability to determine a country’s covid risk level was limited as “fewer countries are testing or reporting,” and it made a decision to end the covid-specific travel designations, spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said in a statement.
for countries and regions amid outbreaks of other infectious diseases, such as yellow fever and Ebola. The agency will now issue those notices for covid-19 when specific risk factors emerge in an area, such as a concerning new variant, Nordlund said.
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