Nearly five months after the U.S. issued a global health advisory putting the whole world at its highest alert level—Level 4—it is lifting the warning, which had advised U.S. residents to avoid all non-essential overseas travel.
Even with the alert lifted, don’t expect to see a quick boost to international travel, because large parts of the world are on country-by-country warnings against travel, or at Level 3 to reconsider travel. And, many of those countries, including Europe, are not open to American travelers anyway.
What does change with the new rules is that the State Department will resume giving individual information on conditions in different countries with specifics that can help travelers make decisions, especially for the more than 50 countries that are still assigned to Level 4.
