US warns against travel to UAE, citing high virus cases

The US on Monday raised its travel warning for the United Arab Emirates to its highest level, citing a "very high level” of coronavirus in the Gulf nation.

While the UAE has one of the world’s fastest vaccination programs, daily new infections have hovered around 2,000 since March. The country has been on a "red list” for travel to the UK since January, putting one of the world’s busiest air routes on ice. More than one-third of the UAE’s infections are of the delta strain of the pathogen first detected in India.