According to the CDC, Americans should not travel to the U.K.
Cases of Covid-19 are spiking in the United Kingdom, prompting two U.S. agencies to amp up their travel warnings.mericans should not travel to the United Kingdom — which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — because of a spike in Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant of the virus. Both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. State Department gave the U.K. their respective highest warning levels., meaning “very high level of Covid-19.
"Because of the current situation in the United Kingdom, even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants,'' says the CDC notice. The U.K. had previously been at level 3, which signifies a “high” level of Covid-19 and warns that only fully vaccinated travelers should travel., which means “do not travel.”
The United Kingdom is currently recording an average of more than 65 new daily Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people, per data from the Brown School of Public Health. That level of spread puts the country at a “tipping point,” according to
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