The Ministry of Public Health has revised the Covid-19 list for Exceptional Red List (high risk) Countries adding two more countries while exempting Kenya from the list.
The high risk countries have been increased from nine to 10. While Kenya has been taken off the list, Egypt and South Sudan have been added. Other countries in the Exceptional Red List are Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Sudan.
The number of countries in the Covid-19 Red List has gone up from 15 to 21. They are: Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Montenegro, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Singapore, Syria, Turkey, UK and UAE.
As many as 181 countries have been listed in the Covid-19 Green List, down from 188. The new Covid-19 Green List list features countries including Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Oman, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, the US, and Zimbabwe among others.
