US Urges No Travel to 6 New Locations Over ‘Very High COVID-19 Risk’

A Mesa Airlines CRJ-900 aircraft takes off from Long Beach International Airport (LGB) as people receive COVID-19 PCR tests at a Long Beach Health Department testing site in the parking lot of a former Boeing aircraft factory in Long Beach, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday urged Americans not to travel to half a dozen new destinations due to “very high levels” of COVID-19.

The new additions added to the CDC’s “Level 4: Very High” risk category include South Korea, Belarus, Comoros, Azerbaijan, French Polynesia, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon—a French archipelago south of Canada’s Newfoundland.