The weekly epidemiological maps of the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC) on the unfold of COVID-19 will henceforth be based mostly on knowledge weighted by vaccine uptake in every nation and area of the EU/EEA, following the adoption by the Council of the EU of recent guidelines and advice for travels contained in the EU, the ECDC has introduced.
On the event of the brand new guidelines, that are in impact since February 1st, the ECDC revealed its first epidemiological map produced with weighted knowledge. As earlier than, the seriousness of the state of affairs in every area is marked as “inexperienced” (secure, comparatively low ranges of virus spreading), “orange”, “crimson” and “deep crimson” (for the areas the place the virus is spreading sooner).
After the adjustments, virtually all areas within the EU/EEA are within the deep crimson class, apart from south-western Romania which remains to be within the crimson class. The final map that had been produced by the previous methodology of considering notification and check charges additionally had a couple of areas in Romania and a few areas in Poland within the crimson class.
In response to the brand new guidelines, knowledge on the 14-day notification price per 100 thousand individuals is weighted by the vaccine uptake of every area. The maps will proceed to be revealed each Thursday on the premise of information gathered by Tuesday midnight.
The ECDC map doesn’t file the variety of deaths or hospitalisations. The map additionally doesn’t account for the share of whole instances attributable to the Omicron variant.
Therefore forth, the “inexperienced” class will cowl areas the place the weighted price is lower than 40, the “orange” class will cowl areas the place the weighted price is lower than 100 however 40 or extra, the “crimson” class will cowl areas the place the weighted price is lower than 300 however 100 or extra and the “darkish crimson” class will cowl areas the place the weighted price is 300 or extra.
ECDC publishes related maps and knowledge each Thursday, in assist of the Council advice on a coordinated strategy to the restriction of free motion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent revision of the Council Advice was adopted by EU Member States on 25 January 2022 and got here into impact on 1 February 2022.
The maps are based mostly on knowledge reported by the Member States to the European Surveillance System (TESSy) by midnight on Tuesday.