For the seventh straight week, no states or territories are coming off the Chicago Travel Advisory.
“It’s great to see these daily case rates go down throughout the country, as I know we’re all anxious to get COVID-19 behind us,” Arwady said. “But the fact remains that every state and territory is still under our Travel Advisory because their COVID case rates are still high enough. And anyone traveling is still at risk of getting COVID-19, and certainly the unvaccinated are at much greater risk.
The city’s health department said the country’s average daily case rate per 100,000 residents is 48.6 and that the state’s daily case rate currently is 33.8. That’s a 76% decline from a couple of weeks ago. when it was 139.6. The city’s daily case rate stands at is 15.9. Last week it was over 21.2. For international travel, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control requires that all travelers, regardless of vaccination status or citizenship, get a negative COVID-19 viral test no more than 1 day before travel into the United States. CDPH guidelines follow CDC requirements for international travel.The CDC recommends that anyone who is unvaccinated delay travel until they are fully vaccinated.