With almost eight

million COVID-19 cases and more than 217,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the

United States, Americans are being discouraged from travelling to Jamaica.

The Centre

for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has listed Jamaica at level 3 as per

its ‘COVID-19 Travel Recommendations by Destination’.

According to

the CDC, “Travelers at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 should

consider postponing all travel, including essential travel, to Jamaica.”

Although

labelled as ‘high risk’, Americans are not banned from travelling to the island.

They are being told to avoid non-essential travel.

Jamaica now has

8,067 coronavirus cases, but only 4,320 are active.

The other

countries in the region that have been listed in the level 3 category are the

British Virgin Islands,  Antigua &

Barbuda, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Sint

Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, and the US Virgin

Islands.

Meanwhile, no

travel advisory has been issued for Anguilla, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts

and Nevis, Dominica and St Lucia, as it is said that the likelihood of contracting

COVID-19 in those countries is ‘very low’.