United States of America

United States of America travel safety and lockdown information

Travel and Flight Restriction 31 Dec 2021
Travel Information 19 Oct 2022
Certification/Vaccination 19 Oct 2022
COVID-19 Data 26 Oct 2022
Total Cases 97,343,426
New Cases 69,897
New Cases (per 1 million citizens) 207.41
Transmission Rate n/a
COVID-19 Risk
COVID-19 Hazard & Exposure 2.8
Socio-Economic Vulnerability 0.8
Health Conditions 0.1
Access to Health Care 1.5
Infrastructure 1.5
Lack of Coping Capacity (Hazard-Independent) 2
Lack of Coping Capacity 1.3
COVID-19 Lack of Coping Capacity 0.5
COVID-19 Risk 2.5
COVID-19 Risk Class Low
Rank 176
Vaccination
COVID-19 Total Vaccination 636,871,557
COVID-19 Daily Vaccination 337,343
COVID-19 Vacc. (per 100 citizens) 191.82
COVID-19 Daily Vacc. (per 1 million citizens) 1,016
Vulnerability
Air Transport, Passengers Carried 10
Point of Entry 8
Access to Cities 3.6
Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (per 100 people) 3.6
Internet Users 2.4
COVID-19 Vulnerability 6.1
Hazard and Exposure
Drinking Water 0.1
COVID-19 Hazard & Exposure 2.8
Population Living in Slums n/a
Lack of Coping Capacity
Corruption Perception Index 3.1
Hospital Bed 6.5
Health System Capacity 5
Immunization Coverage 0.83
Health Capacity Specific to COVID-19 0.5
COVID-19 Lack of Coping Capacity 0.5
Indicator Data
Human Development Index 0.92
Incidence of Tuberculosis (per 10,000 people) 3.1
Malaria Incidence (per 1,000 people) No data
Estimated Number of People Living With HIV (%) No data
Air Transport, Passengers Carried 889,022,000
Mobile Cellular Subscriptions (per 100 people) 129.01
Total Population 329,064,917
Land area (sq. km) 9,147,420
Disasters
Year Type Total Affected Total Deaths
2017 Drought / Drought
2017 Flood 70 20
2017 Flood / Flash flood 10
2017 Flood / Riverine flood 300
2017 Storm / Convective storm 202,079 72
2017 Storm / Tropical cyclone 652,084 189
2017 Wildfire 2,963 2
2017 Wildfire / Forest fire 156
2017 Wildfire / Land fire (Brush, Bush, Pasture) 9,185 43
2018 Drought / Drought
2018 Flood 1,596
2018 Flood / Flash flood 2
2018 Flood / Riverine flood 5
2018 Landslide / Mudslide 1,366 21
2018 Storm 3
2018 Storm / Convective storm 93 48
2018 Storm / Tropical cyclone 1,505,000 107
2018 Volcanic activity / Lava flow 2,500
2018 Wildfire 3 2
2018 Wildfire / Forest fire 253,237 102
2019 Earthquake / Ground movement 150
2019 Flood 14,600 5
2019 Flood / Riverine flood 2,000 5
2019 Storm / Convective storm 486 123
2019 Storm / Tropical cyclone 1,000 16
2019 Wildfire / Forest fire 1,265 3
2020 Drought / Drought 45
2020 Flood 10,000 1
2020 Flood / Riverine flood 3,000
2020 Storm / Convective storm 12,531 95
2020 Storm / Tropical cyclone 15,900 80
2020 Wildfire / Forest fire 32
2021 Drought / Drought
2021 Extreme temperature / Heat wave 229
2021 Flood 500 21
2021 Flood / Flash flood 1,325 36
2021 Flood / Riverine flood 51 1
2021 Storm / Convective storm 1,036 390
2021 Storm / Tropical cyclone 14,200 104
2021 Wildfire 4,693 2
2021 Wildfire / Forest fire 3,397 3
2022 Drought / Drought
2022 Flood 1,075 37
2022 Storm / Convective storm 576 39
2022 Storm / Tropical cyclone 101
2022 Wildfire 2,324 6

USA the latest travel restrictions

The U.S. is reevaluating the travel ban on eight southern African countries as more information about the omicron variant and its spread becomes available, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Sunday.

“That ban was done at a time when we were really in the dark -- we had no idea what was going on,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”

U.S. medical advisers are evaluating the new restrictions on “a daily basis” and Fauci said he was hopeful “we’ll be able to lift that ban in a quite reasonable period of time.”

The U.S. has barred entry from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. While the apparently highly contagious variant was first detected in South Africa, some of those countries aren’t yet reporting cases. 

That’s prompted criticism from international officials, with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres last week likening the restrictions to “travel apartheid.” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to maintain “rational, proportional risk-reduction measures.” 

U.S. officials have defended the restrictions as a way to buy time to learn more about the variant and develop possible countermeasures.

“Travel restrictions can buy you some time to do important things,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said on “Fox News Sunday.”

But the Biden administration indicated that with omicron detected in at least 16 states, it may reconsider. Fauci said he felt “very badly about the hardship” that the policy was placing on people from South Africa and neighboring countries.

“The bottom line is, these are meant to be temporary measures,” Murthy said.

Fauci also indicated that the U.S. was encouraged by reports from South African officals that the rapid spread of omicron hadn’t yet resulted in a spike in hospitalizations in that country, an indication that the strain could be less virulent. Still, he cautioned it was too soon to make any “definitive statements” about the variant and encouraged Americans to get vaccinations and booster shots.

8 Vaccines Approved for use in the USA
- Pfizer-BioNTech
- Moderna
- Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen
- AstraZeneca
- Covaxin
- Covishield
- BIBP/Sinopharm
- CoronaVac/Sinovac