CDC raises Covid warning to highest level for travelers to UK

Americans should avoid travel to the U.K. if possible because of a surge in that nation’s spread of Covid-19, U.S. health officials said in raising their warning to the highest level.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its travel warning to "Very High,” citing a surge in cases that puts even fully vaccinated travelers at risk for contracting and spreading variants of Covid-19. The warning comes amid a surge in cases that is already undermining the U.K.’s so-called "Freedom Day,” a lifting of pandemic-related restrictions intended to herald the full reopening of an economy battered by its deepest recession in 300 years.