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FRIDAY, Aug. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — On Thursday, the Trump administration canceled its warnings against international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n
Conditions no longer call for a blanket worldwide alert, the administration said.<\/p>\n
The State Department lifted its worldwide health and returned to country-specific warnings, the AP<\/i> said.<\/p>\n
This came after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> changed its COVID-19<\/a> travel advisory. The CDC lifted “do not travel” warnings for some 20 locations but advised staying away from most places in the world.<\/p>\n “With health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the department is returning to our previous system of country-specific levels of travel advice in order to give travelers<\/a> detailed and actionable information to make informed travel decisions,” the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n “This will also provide U.S. citizens more detailed information about the current status in each country. We continue to recommend U.S. citizens exercise<\/a> caution when traveling abroad due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic,” the statement said.<\/p>\n The CDC’s revised its warning saying the changes were because the virus was spreading in different places, the AP<\/i> said.<\/p>\n Seven places, including Thailand, Fiji and New Zealand, are low-risk, the CDC, said.<\/p>\n But older adults and those with certain underlying medical conditions should talk to their doctors before making the trip, the CDC said.<\/p>\n More than a dozen countries require no precautions, including Taiwan, Greenland and Laos.<\/p>\n But the CDC still advises against nonessential travel to more than 200 other international locations, the AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n And because the United States has the highest number of COVID-19<\/a> cases in the world, many countries are currently barring entry to Americans.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n![\"MedicalNews\"](\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\")
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