The newest epidemiological map issued by the European Centre for for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC) captures the rise of circumstances throughout the European Union and the European Financial Space, as nearly its entirety now consists of purple and deep purple zones.
Cyprus stays within the purple class for one more week.
The ECDC map doesn’t document the variety of deaths or hospitalisation, or the degrees of vaccination, however solely the variety of new circumstances per 100 thousand individuals over the previous 14 days.
After the fast rise in circumstances over the previous few weeks, just some areas in France, Spain and Sweden, in addition to Malta and most areas in Italy, stay within the orange zone.
In the meantime, the “deep purple” class now consists of Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of Eire and Iceland.
Solely two areas in Poland stay within the purple class, with the state of affairs worsening in the remainder of the nation.
Southern and japanese Germany stays within the deep purple zone, whereas its north-western areas stay within the purple class.
The purple zone consists of Cyprus, Romania (the place there was a slight enchancment in comparison with final week), Bulgaria (the place the epidemiological state of affairs can be improved), Portugal, Finland and Norway (the place some areas are within the deep purple class).
France, Spain and Sweden are additionally principally within the purple class.
Orange zone areas are outlined because the areas the place the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification price is under 50 and the take a look at positivity price of assessments for COVID-19 an infection is 4% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification price is between 50 and 75 and the take a look at positivity price is 1% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification price is between 75 and 200 and the take a look at positivity price is decrease than 4%.
Purple zone areas are outlined because the areas the place the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification price ranges from 75 to 200 and the take a look at positivity price of assessments for COVID-19 an infection is 4% or extra, or the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 case notification price is greater than 200 however lower than 500 (when the cumulative price exceeds 500 the realm enters the “deep purple” zone).
ECDC publishes related maps and information each Thursday, in help of the Council suggestion on a coordinated method to the restriction of free motion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The maps are based mostly on information reported by the Member States to the European Surveillance System (TESSy) by midnight on Tuesday.