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The European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) published on Thursday its first map with the risk areas of Covid-19 in Europe and placed Portugal in the red zone, the one with the highest risk of contagion. In detail, the organization of the European Union places four of the five regions of continental Portugal as areas with the highest contagion of the new coronavirus: Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, North, Center and Algarve.
As criteria for this assignment, ECDC considers the number of positive cases in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants and the percentage of tests performed that resulted in a positive test. On the map, which the ECDC will publish once a week, there are three colors: green, yellow and red, depending on the greater or lesser risk of Covid-19 infection.
The first map has just been released!
The maps include information on:
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For a region to be located in the red zone, in the previous 14 days it must present more than 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and less than 4% positive tests or more than 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and a test rate positive more than 4%.
Azores, Madeira and Alentejo appear in yellow in the same table as the ECDC, which means that they have between 25 and 149 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and a percentage of less than 4% of positive tests or up to 149 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and a positivity rate for Covid-19 diagnoses higher than 4%.
In addition to Portugal, more than half of the European countries appear in the red zone of the map that refers to travel restrictions, created after a decision by the European Commission as a measure to combat the spread of the pandemic in Europe.
In total, 17 of the 31 countries analyzed by the ECDC received, in their entirety and in their majority, the characterization in red. The body covers all EU Member States and the UK, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Red zone countries include Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria. Italy is yellow, as are Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, while Greece, Finland, and Norway are the only predominantly green countries.
Five countries (Austria, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland) have not received any awards due to lack of information received by the ECDC.
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