The newest version of the epidemiological map issued by the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC) reveals that the scenario concerning the unfold of COVID-19 has worsened in most areas within the EU and the European Financial Space (EEA). Cyprus stays within the deep crimson class for one more week.
Romania, which was the one space the place the scenario appeared to have been enhancing since a few of its areas within the orange and even the inexperienced class, has reverted again to the crimson class.
The remainder of the area within the EU/EEA are actually within the deep crimson or crimson class, with the scenario notably worsening in central and jap Europe.
The one areas in Europe which can be within the crimson class are actually most of Poland, the jap areas of Hungary and Romania.
The map, which was printed on Thursday, combines knowledge on case notification charges per 100 thousand inhabitants and take a look at positivity over the past 14 days (on this case overlaying roughly the final week of 2021 and the primary week of 2022).
The ECDC map doesn’t document the variety of deaths or hospitalisation, or the degrees of vaccination. The map additionally doesn’t account for the variety of instances attributable to the Omicron variant.
Orange zone areas are outlined because the areas the place the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification charge is beneath 50 and the take a look at positivity charge of exams for COVID-19 an infection is 4% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification charge is between 50 and 75 and the take a look at positivity charge is 1% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification charge is between 75 and 200 and the take a look at positivity charge is decrease than 4%.
Purple zone areas are outlined because the areas the place the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification charge ranges from 75 to 200 and the take a look at positivity charge of exams for COVID-19 an infection is 4% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification charge is greater than 200 however lower than 500 (when the cumulative charge exceeds 500 the world enters the “deep crimson” zone).
ECDC publishes related maps and knowledge each Thursday, in help of the Council advice on a coordinated method to the restriction of free motion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The maps are based mostly on knowledge reported by the member states to the European Surveillance System (TESSy) by midnight on Tuesday.