Large parts of the Netherlands to dark red on European corona map | Inland

Zeeland, Limburg, Drenthe, Friesland and Flevoland remain on the red. That is the second highest level. A few weeks ago, the Netherlands was largely still green, the most favorable color, with a yellow spot here and there. Dark red is the highest level.

The European health service ECDC, comparable to the Dutch RIVM, updated the data behind the maps on Thursday. Other countries may introduce stricter rules for Dutch holidaymakers as a result of the card.

The number of corona cases is also increasing in holiday destinations. For example, large parts of Spain have gone from red to dark red, such as Valencia, Mallorca and Ibiza. Catalonia already had the highest color. The Greek island of Crete also goes from red to dark red. Corsica jumps from green to red in one fell swoop this week. Large parts of France go from green to yellow, as do parts of Sicily, Sardinia, Venice and Rome and the surrounding areas in Italy.

For its card, ECDC looks at the number of positive tests in the past two weeks and at the percentage of positive tests in the total. The number of new cases in the Netherlands has risen again last week, although it did not go as fast as the week before.

Travel advice

Large parts of Europe are green, with some yellow areas here and there. This means that the corona outbreak is currently reasonably under control. For those countries, Dutch tourists can be a danger, because they can introduce the highly contagious delta variant of the corona virus.

This week, however, the travel advice from the Netherlands has hardly changed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is keeping a close eye on developments in Crete, the Azores and Luxembourg, but nothing has changed within Europe this week from yellow to orange or back. This also means that there are no additional negative travel advice. Traveling to Spain, mainland Portugal and Cyprus is already strongly discouraged.

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