(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added two northwestern European countries to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations this week amid a surge in cases in Europe that a WHO official has said is “of grave concern.”
The Netherlands and Luxembourg were added to the CDC’s highest risk category Monday afternoon. There were both previously listed as Level 3, or “high” risk for Covid-19.
Hans Kluge, a World Health Organization regional director, said Thursday that every country in Europe and Central Asia is “facing a real threat of Covid-19 resurgence or already fighting it.”
“The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European Region is of grave concern,” Kluge said.
The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, a self-governing archipelago that is part of the kingdom of Denmark, were also added…
