Covid-19: US raises travel alert levels for Kenya
The US State Department on Friday raised the levels of its advisories on travel to Kenya and other East African countries partly due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
The new alerts urge prospective visitors to the region to “reconsider travel” to Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.
That is the third-highest of four levels of travel advisories by the State Department. Level 4 “Do Not Travel” alerts are issued for Somalia and South Sudan.
The heightened alerts for East African nations are among scores of country-specific advisories that replace the worldwide travel warning the US issued on March 19, soon after the coronavirus reached the pandemic stage.
Most countries are assigned to Level 3 of the rankings. Only Taiwan and the China-controlled region of Macao are listed as Level 1 – where travellers are told to exercise “normal precautions”.
On Kenya, the State Department notes, in regard to Covid-19, that the government “has lifted stay-at-home orders and resumed some transportation options and business operations”. Travellers are urged to “exercise increased caution in Kenya due to crime, terrorism, health issues and kidnapping.”
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