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The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that all international exchange programs will be paused for 60 days to help combat the coronavirus outbreak.
“The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) will temporarily pause all ECA-funded programs that involve travel to and from countries with heightened U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Alert Level 2 and Warning Level 3 or heightened State Department COVID-19 related Travel Advisory Levels 3 and 4,” it said in a statement.
“ECA-funded programs will be paused for CDC Alert Level 2 and Warning Level 3 countries due to COVID-19,” it said and
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