The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added just one new location to its list of "very high" risk travel destinations this week – Ukraine.
This was reported by CNN.
On Monday, October 26, Ukraine was moved up from Level 3, or "high" risk for Covid-19, to Level 4, the agency's highest risk category.
It's the second week in a row that the CDC has moved only one new nation to the Level 4 ranks. Last week, it was the modern city-state of Singapore.
These last two updates in October are a far cry from the situation in early August, when the CDC added 16 destinations in one week to Level 4, and Delta variant cases were rising rapidly across much of the planet.
Destinations that fall into the "Covid-19 Very High" Level 4 category have had more than 500 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days, according to CDC criteria.
Popular international vacation spots remained lodged at this highest level of alert, evidence of Covid-19's continuing grip. The current list of Level 4 destinations includes:
In the case of the UK, it's been lodged at Level 4 since July 19. Greece has been there since August 2. Thailand has been there since August 9.
In total, there were 77 destinations worldwide still at Level 4 on October 25.