Kuwait City: The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a newsletter advising people not to travel to Kuwait and raised the country’s COVID-19 risk factor to level 4.
The CDC has a four level travel system that ranks whether a country is safe to travel to or not based on the current situation in said country.
For passengers that do decide to travel from Kuwait to the United States, they must need to conduct a PCR test no more than three days before travelling to the US.
Spike in cases
Kuwait has been placed on the highest level of alert by the CDC due to the spike in COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks.
Between December and February, the cases increased by about 220 per cent and the total number of cases registered in February was 25,959 compared to December where the total number of cases were 7,949.
This week Kuwait witnessed the three highest days of positive cases since the pandemic began over a year ago. On Monday, the cases were at 1,179, then on Tuesday they increased to 1,341 and on Wednesday the cases spiked even more reaching 1,409.
