Filenews 14 January 2022
Cyprus for yet another week remains in the deep red category on the map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) while there is a deterioration in the epidemiological situation in relation to COVID-19 in the vast majority of the regions and regions of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA).
After several weeks in which the situation in Romania was improving, with some areas in the orange and even in the green category, now the whole country is in the red category.
The rest of the EU and EEA regions are now in the deep red or red category, with the situation deteriorating in Central and Eastern Europe. Most of Poland, the eastern regions of Hungary and Romania are the only areas that remain in the red category.
The map, published on Thursday, combines data on the case notification rate, testing rate and case rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days (in this case the last week of 2021 and the first week of 2022).
It is noted that this map does not record deaths or serious hospitalizations, nor vaccination levels. It is also not recorded how many cases are due to the Omikron variant.
An orange zone is defined as countries or regions where the total number of new cases in the previous 14 days is between less than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the rate of positive tests exceeds 4%, or where the total number of new cases is between 50 and 75 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the rate of positive tests exceeds 1%, or where the total number of new cases is between 75 and of 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the rate of positive tests is less than 4%.
The red zone is defined as the countries or regions where the total number of new cases in the previous 14 days is between 75 and 200 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the percentage of positive tests exceeds 4%, and if the number of new cases is below 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (in which case the country passes to the "deep red" category).
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