Filenews 17 September 2021
For another week, Cyprus remains in the red zone of the epidemiological map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the spread of COVID-19, according to the updated data posted on the agency's website on Thursday.
The red zone is defined as the regions where the total number of new cases in the previous 14 days is between 75 and 200 per 100 thousand inhabitants, and the rate of positive tests exceeds 4%, and if the number of new cases is below 500 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants (in which case the country passes to the "deep red" category).
In the "red zone", i.e. in the high-risk categories, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia and Ireland are for another week. To the "red" countries are added Latvia and Luxembourg (which last week were in the orange category) and Romania (whose regions were in the orange and green categories).
On the other hand, improvement is taking place in France, Spain and Italy where some areas fell from the red to the orange category, in Portugal and Iceland. Parts of Denmark have moved into the 'green', i.e. safe, category. Parts of western Greece came out of the "deep red" category and returned to the red, while Flanders in Belgium moved into the orange category.
The situation worsened in Germany where much of the eastern regions passed from "orange" to "red" with the rest of the country, and in Slovakia where part of the country that was in the green category passed to orange.
Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary remain in the green zone.
CNA
