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“RED”: After being “yellow” for a week, FHI now recommends that Iceland go red again. Photo: Kyrre Lien
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health recommends that two countries and several Nordic regions be “red” as of Saturday.
The list of “yellow” countries is getting shorter and shorter. Several countries that we could travel to without quarantine during the summer are now “red”.
In its latest travel tip, FHI recommends that Iceland, Lithuania, the central Finland and Päijänne-Häme regions in Finland and the Swedish region of Västerbotten go “red”.
“All of these have had infection rates rising and are now above the limit of 20 confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks,” FHI writes in a press release Tuesday night.
In the last two weeks, Iceland has registered 64.5 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants, as shown by both the summary of VG and the figures from FHI. By comparison, Lithuania, which is now also recommended to be colored red, has 23.7 cases of infection per 100,000 in the same period.
This means that only Latvia, Liechtenstein, Greenland, and Cyprus are completely “yellow” as of Saturday.
See the expected travel tips on the map below:
Iceland has barely been “yellow” for a week.
Last week, all regions of Denmark “red”. However, several Danish, Finnish and Swedish regions are ‘yellow’.
- What does it mean to be red? The government has established a limit of 20 infected per 100,000 inhabitants in total during the last 14 days. Countries that rise above this can be colored red. Anyone who comes from there must be quarantined.
- How is it determined? NIPH advises the government, which then decides and decides which countries / regions will be colored red / yellow. FHI gives advice every week on whether something should be red and closed. But vacancies (that is, to color some yellow) are only considered every two weeks.
