WEB DESK
United States has advised its citizens against travelling to Germany and Denmark. This has been advised by US officials following surging numbers of Corona virus infections in Europe. The US State Department warned Americans yesterday not to travel to Germany due to the very high level of COVID-19 infection in that country. The advisory came after fresh advice from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC added that because of the current situation in Germany, even fully vaccinated travellers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants.
Denmark, Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Austria and the Netherlands have also been issued with the CDC’s highest Level-4 warning.
Germany, the EU’s most populous nation, is currently grappling with its fourth and most severe wave of the pandemic.
Yesterday, 30,643 new cases were reported and intensive care units are filling up with COVID-19 patients at a rate German hospitals have never seen before, not even in 2020.
The latest surge has been blamed on a sluggish vaccine uptake. Only 68 per cent of the country’s population is fully vaccinated.