“Avoid trips to France”.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), reference health agencies in the United States, raised this Monday evening to level 4 (very risky), the health warning concerning France for American tourists.
He was so far at a level 3 (risky).
While the French government decided on Monday to toughen up its tone and impose new health measures and recommendations to stem the fifth wave of Covid-19, the circulation of the Omicron variant, sequenced several times in France and in the rest of Europe, must have played a decisive role in this decision by the American authorities.
Six other countries classified at high risk on Monday
Several countries also saw their level of risk raised on Monday.
Among them, Cyprus, Andorra, Jordan, Portugal, Liechtenstein and Jordan.
In the previous fortnight, the main countries to be affixed to this level of risk all came from southern Africa, where the Omicron variant, considered "worrying" by the WHO, first appeared.
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If travelers have no choice but to go to France, the CDC, which indicates "that in view of the situation, even people who have been vaccinated twice may be at risk of catching and transmitting the variants of the Covid-19 ", invite the strictest respect for barrier gestures in force in the country," including the wearing of masks and social distancing.
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