Riga, July 8, LETA. With the onset of new Covid-19 outbreaks in several European countries, Latvia has fallen to 12th place among the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries in terms of the prevalence of Covid-19 in the past two weeks, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). aggregated data.
Last week, Latvia was in fifth place, a week earlier – in third place, but in mid-June, Latvia had even the highest incidence of Covid-19 in Europe.
ECDC estimates of the situation in the previous two weeks from 21 June to 4 July show that the cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population in Latvia has decreased to 43 cases. Until the beginning of this week, the 14-day infection rate was higher than in Latvia in Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The highest incidence rate is currently in Cyprus at 493.13 cases per 100,000 population, and the lowest in Romania at 3.6 cases per 100,000 population.
In Estonia, the infection rate per 100,000 population has dropped to 29.27 cases in the last two weeks, and in Lithuania to 17.32 cases, according to ECDC data.
In Latvia, the 14-day mortality rate diagnosed with Covid-19 has almost halved and at the end of the previous week it was 16.77 cases per one million inhabitants. However, in other countries the mortality rate is lower and in this indicator Latvia, after a long position in the 2nd place, has dropped only to the 3rd place among the EU and EEA countries with the highest mortality.
Only Romania and Greece have had higher mortality rates per million population diagnosed with Covid-19 in the past two weeks. The corresponding figure is 8.59 in Lithuania and 1.5 in Estonia.
Latvia, together with the other Baltic States, has finally entered the green zone of the travel warning card created by ECDC, which indicates to travelers a low risk of Covid-19.
Most of Europe’s regions are currently in the green zone. Only Cyprus is currently in the dark red zone, which indicates a high risk for travelers. Portugal and most Spanish regions are in the red zone. The orange zone is located in Ireland, as well as a number of regions in Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greece and Belgium.
The Travel Alert Card is designed to make it easier for travelers to understand the level of infection in different parts of Europe.
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