{"id":2037,"date":"2021-07-07T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2021-07-07T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:18:15","slug":"americans-told-to-reconsider-travel-to-sri-lanka-because-of-covid-and-terrorism-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"Americans told to reconsider travel to Sri Lanka because of Covid and terrorism threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2041\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The US has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0due to the Covid situation there and urged them to reconsider their travel to\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0because of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not travel to\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0due to COVID-19,&#8221; the State Department said in a latest travel advisory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1490771277198-0\" class=\"article-middle-banner\" data-google-query-id=\"CJCvqryb0fECFZOcSwUdKTYCkw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"4\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement, the State Department said the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not issued a travel health notice for Bhutan, indicating an unknown level of COVID-19 in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your risk of contracting COVID-19 and developing severe symptoms may be lower if you are fully vaccinated with an FDA authorised vaccine. Before planning any international travel, please review the CDC&#8217;s specific recommendations for vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department also urged Americans to &#8220;reconsider travel to\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution in\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0due to terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has issued a level 3 travel health notice for Sri Lanka due to COVID-19, indicating a high level of COVID-19 in the country, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your risk of contracting COVID-19 and developing severe symptoms may be lower if you are fully vaccinated with an FDA authorised vaccine. Before planning any international travel, please review the CDC&#8217;s specific recommendations for vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers,&#8221; said the travel advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Business Standard , Photo: Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has advised its citizens to avoid travelling to\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0due to the Covid situation there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,4,42],"tags":[45],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",620,464,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1623245776-6068.jpg",421,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}