Key points
- Reconsider travel to China, Hong Kong, and Macau due to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases and limited health care resources.
- If you do travel, take the steps below to protect yourself and others from COVID-19.
If You Travel
- Get up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines before you travel. Even if you are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines, you may still be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19.
- Consider getting tested before travel to China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
- Prepare a travel health kit with items you may need, especially those items that may be difficult to find at your destination, such as fever reducing medicines.
- Consider getting travel insurance and travel health insurance in case you need health care or your trip is interrupted.
- Wear a mask when indoors in public, and follow CDC’s recommendations for wearing masks in travel and public transportation settings.
- Follow all entry and exit requirements and recommendationsExternal Link at your destination.
- Get tested with a viral test 3-5 days after you get back to the United States. Some U.S. airports offer a free take-home COVID-19 test when you participate in a program tracking new variants.