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Last Updated : 2024-05-21 07:04:00
Amid rising coronavirus cases in Japan and Sri Lanka, the US State Department issued a travel advisory warning against travel to the respective countries due to COVID transmission concerns.
"This week, the following Travel Advisories have been assessed and reissued with updates, raised to a Level 4 - Do Not Travel: Japan, Sri Lanka," the State Department said on Monday.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a new alert that Americans should avoid all travel to Japan and advised anyone who does have to visit the country to get vaccinated prior to traveling there.
"Because of the current situation in Japan even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants and should avoid all travel to Japan," it added.
This comes few months before the Olympics are set to be held in Tokyo in July. The Olympics were already postponed once due to the pandemic.
Japan has been witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases as it reported over seven lakh coronavirus infections till Sunday ahead of the Olympic Games.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday, the country registered 7,14,274 confirmed cases and 12,236 deaths till yesterday (Sunday). As of May 15, a total of 5,593,436 vaccine doses have been administered in the country.
Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka 2,971 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Monday. Till Monday, a total of 167,172 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country.(ANI)
Udayanga Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:19 AM
If Ukrainian tourists can come, why not the Americans ?
Tikiri Tuesday, 25 May 2021 09:37 AM
No Problem... We have Russia.... No Russia no problem... We have China..... No China no problem we have India..... No India no problem we have mig mama
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