{"id":172619,"date":"2022-01-26T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=172619"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:07:49","slug":"us-downgrades-advisory-for-travel-to-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/us-downgrades-advisory-for-travel-to-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"US downgrades advisory for travel to the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Viajes-a-RD-DR1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Viajes-a-RD-DR1.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Viajes-a-RD-DR1-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting the mid-December to mid-January Omicron variant spike in the Dominican Republic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for the Dominican Republic on 24 January 2022. The alert tells US citizens to not travel to the Dominican Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is the most important source of tourists to the Dominican Republic. US tourists have been filling Dominican hotels and account for the majority of future bookings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour risk of contracting Covid-19 and developing severe symptoms may be lower if you are fully vaccinated with an FDA authorized vaccine,\u201d establishes the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement by the CDC comes at a time when the Omicron variant seems to have leveled off and the cases and positivity are gradually declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Americas, the CDC also downgraded travel to Colombia, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Peru, St. Bart and St. Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/dominican-republic-travel-advisory.html\">US State Department <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/cdc-very-high-risk-travel-destinations-january-24\/index.html\">CNN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/26\/coronavirus-covid-19-bulletin-677-24-january-2022\/\">DR1 News &#8211; Covid-19 Bulletin #677<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 January 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting the mid-December to mid-January Omicron variant spike in the Dominican Republic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for the Dominican Republic on 24 January 2022. The alert tells US citizens to not travel to the Dominican Republic. The United States is the most important &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/us-downgrades-advisory-for-travel-to-the-dominican-republic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172661,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172619\/revisions\/172661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}