US CDC advises against travel

The CDC on Monday again advised against travel, while Miami Beach, Florida, business owners fretted about spring break chaos. Miami Beach officials declared a state of emergency and ordered a rare curfew over the weekend, an effort to avoid spreading Covid-19 and stop large crowds and unruly behavior in the popular tourist destination. Some businesses in the area, eager to recover from a brutal pandemic year that drove down tourist numbers, say they are being unfairly punished. Many colleges in the US scaled back their spring breaks to prevent partying and new Covid infections. While Covid-19 cases have declined from the peak in January, the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has warned infections could rise if people travel for spring break. “Now is not the time to travel,” she said at a news conference Monday. “We are worried not just for what happens when you are on the airplane itself, but what happens when people travel, that is they go out, they mix, they mix with people who are not vaccinated,” she said.<br/>