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CDC Adds Aruba to Growing No-Go COVID Travel Zone List

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The Dutch island is the latest tourist hot spot to be upgraded to Category 4 due to a surge in cases.

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Carlos Garcia Rawlins via Reuters

The picturesque tourist island of Aruba off the coast of South America now joins a plethora of other hot tourist spots on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category 4 risk list. Americans are cautioned against traveling there due to a high incidence of COVID-19 cases. The CDC makes the designation based on a formula when more than 500 cases per 100,000 residents are recorded. Other countries on the list are France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K.

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