{"id":176531,"date":"2022-04-05T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=176531"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:57:57","slug":"the-us-department-of-state-again-upgrades-travel-to-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/the-us-department-of-state-again-upgrades-travel-to-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Department of State again upgrades travel to DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US-Travel-Advisory-April-2022-e1649111595115.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176500\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Embassy announced that the US Department of State has restored the Dominican Republic country status to Level 2 for travel. The US Department of State travel advisory tells travelers to \u201cexercise increased caution in the Dominican Republic due to Covid-19.\u201d Covid-19 cases are down to a 7-day average of 49 cases and there have been no deaths over three weeks, at the time of the upgrading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it has issued a Level 2 Travel Health Notice for the Dominican Republic, indicating a moderate level of Covid-19 in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 21 March, the US Embassy had upgraded the travel advisory to Level 3: Reconsider Travel from Level 4: Do Not Travel that was issued on 31 January as Omicron did the rounds in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/do.usembassy.gov\/\">US Embassy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/dominican-republic-travel-advisory.html\">US Travel Advisories <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 April 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy announced that the US Department of State has restored the Dominican Republic country status to Level 2 for travel. The US Department of State travel advisory tells travelers to \u201cexercise increased caution in the Dominican Republic due to Covid-19.\u201d Covid-19 cases are down to a 7-day average of 49 cases and there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/the-us-department-of-state-again-upgrades-travel-to-dr\/\" 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":[294,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176531"}],"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=176531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176549,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176531\/revisions\/176549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}