The improved situation of the past few days in Cyprus regarding the spread of the coronavirus is recorded this week in the epidemiological map of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) that was posted on the service's website on Thursday.
Cyprus this week passes for the first time in weeks in the orange (moderate risk) zone from the red zone.
The epidemiological situation is improving in several other parts of Europe, mainly in Western Europe (with the exception of Germany) and the Scandinavian countries.
The orange zone is defined as the countries or regions where the total number of new cases in the previous 14 days is between less than 50 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, and the percentage of positive tests exceeds 4%, or where the total number of new cases is between 50 and 75 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and the percentage of positive tests exceeds 1% or where the total number of new cases is between 75 and 200 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and the percentage 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 thousand inhabitants, and the percentage of positive tests exceeds 4%, and if the number of new cases is below 500 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants (at which point the country goes into the "deep red" category).
In the "red zone", ie in the high risk category, there are still several regions of Greece, among others, Bulgaria, Germany, most of Austria, Ireland, Slovakia and Croatia. In the deep red are the Baltic countries, Slovenia and regions of Romania.
However, in the green category passed several areas of Spain, France, Italy, but also the North Aegean in Greece.
The map and related data are published by the ECDC every Thursday, supporting the efforts made on the basis of a relevant EU Council proposal to coordinate pandemic restrictions due to the pandemic. The maps are based on the latest data in the database sent by Member States to the European Monitoring System (TESSy) until midnight on Tuesday.
