SUMMARY: Travelers from China are finding themselves facing renewed travel restrictions due to the marked increase in COVID cases within China. While severe weather is affecting travel in the United States and the Philippines. Rail strikes in the United Kingdom, Paraguay and Argentina are effecting travel.
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CHINA: The PRC remains the epicenter of the global COVID pandemic with a continued surge of COVID cases. Such is the level of infections within China, countries are once again taking a page from the January 2020 COVID playbook and requiring COVID testing prior to allowing entry or otherwise restricting entry of travelers from China. China calls these actions “unreasonable.” Travelers to and from China will need to do a bit of sleuthing prior to travel to update themselves on the current entry requirements.
Philippines – The number of casualties continue to rise due to severe rain causing widespread flooring. Travel in and out of Philippines have been interrupted.
United States – Sever weather across the midwest and northern plains is and will cause significant interruptions in air travel. To determine specific airport misery, Flight Aware’s Misery Map is a good one-stop optic into the situation across the U.S.
United Kingdom – Rail travel in the U.K. will be disrupted as the nation’s rail works began a strike.
Argentina & Paraguay – Rail travel between the two countries is being affected by an indefinite rail strike which commenced on 02 January.
The most recent weather alerts from the government of the United States entities- USGS and the NWS on weather, storms, volcanoes and earthquakes in the U.S. The information is dynamic and is updated every 30 minutes.
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The most recent travel alerts from the governments of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, and New Zealand. This presentation of alerts is dynamic and is updated every 30 minutes.
For a more comprehensive list of government travel alerts, visit the Travel Alert page (link above)
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Latest information from the World Heath Organization (Pan American Health Organization) and the U.S. CDC travel alerts.
The most recent FEMA disaster relief and other announcements from FEMA Regions 1 through 10.
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