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The Central Region is red in the new European traffic light for covid-19 infections and registers 50 or more new cases per 100,000 inhabitants every 14 days.
The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) began today the publication of maps of covid-19 in European territory, at the request of the Council of the European Union, being evident the worsening of the epidemiological situation, showing the regions o statistical territorial units NUT II. In the case of Portugal, the North, Center, Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Alentejo and Algarve regions are considered, in addition to the autonomous regions, Madeira and Azores.
The maps, which will be updated weekly on Thursdays, comprise the criteria recommended by the Council of the EU, as part of efforts to coordinate restrictions on freedom of movement in the Union due to the pandemic, through the establishment of a “traffic light “uniform.
The European Center for Disease Control, based in Sweden, explains that it ‘paints’ green regions where the rate of notification of new cases in the previous 14 days is less than 25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the rate of positive tests is per below 4%,
The color orange is used in areas where, in two weeks, there are less than 50 new cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants, but the rate of positive tests is equal to or greater than 4% or, if it falls below the threshold of 4%, the notification rate is between 25 and 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In gray are the areas for which there is insufficient information or the testing rate is less than 300 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, which applies to several Member States, in this first publication, for reasons not explained.
The ECDC highlights regions where the 14-day notification rate is equal to or greater than 50 per 100,000 inhabitants and the positive test rate is equal to or greater than 4%, as well as regions where the notification rate is 14 days is equal to or greater than 150 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, although the rate of positive tests is less than 4%.
The map with the combined criteria puts a large part of the European Union – and the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom in red – pointing to the European Center which, to date, 4,417,239 cases have been reported in the EU / EEA and the United Kingdom. Spain appears at the top, with more than 900 thousand cases.
Also until today, and according to the data transmitted by the countries to the ECDC, almost 200 thousand people in Europe have already died from covid-19 (198,004 deaths), in this case the United Kingdom, with more than 43 thousand deaths, ahead of Italy ( 36,289), Spain (33,413) and France (33,037).
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million ninety-three thousand deaths and more than 38.5 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 2,128 people died for 93,294 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin of the General Directorate of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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