Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Centers for disease prevention in the United States (USA), the CDC, includes Singapore to the “red list” of travel destinations. Where is RI’s neighbor now? list country “very high riskaka the highest risk of Covid-19.
Singapore was previously at Level 3 aka “high risk”. But now, from the update made, the city-state is at “Level 4”.
Quotes CNN International, the CDC itself puts a country into a Level 4 category because of a number of criteria. Among them have had 500 cases per 100,000 population in the last 28 days.
“People should avoid traveling to designated locations with Level 4 notification,” the CDC recommendations read.
“Anyone who must travel must be fully vaccinated first.”
This news comes amid the country’s decision to relax restrictions and add a new list of countries to the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) program. There are eight new countries whose citizens are free from quarantine under this scheme, including the US.
This CDC update is the latest after early August 2021. At that time 16 countries entered the red zone.
Currently, apart from Singapore, a number of countries are still at Level 4 of the CDC. Namely, Austria, Belizia, Botswana, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Malaysia, Switzerland, Turkey and England.
Quotes WorldometersYesterday, Singapore recorded 2,553 new cases. Additional cases fell from Sunday’s 3,058 cases.
Singapore recorded 25,980 active cases. From the start of the pandemic to date, there have been 148,178 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 233 deaths.
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