Riga, May 13, LETA. Latvia has risen to 6th place among the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries with the highest infection rates with Covid-19, according to data compiled by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Last week, Latvia took 8th place.
ECDC estimates of the situation in the previous two weeks from 26 April to 9 May show that the cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population in Latvia is 453.3 cases. Until the beginning of this week, the 14-day infection rate was higher than in Latvia in Cyprus, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and Croatia.
The highest incidence rate is currently in Cyprus at 797.6 cases per 100,000 population, and the lowest in Iceland at 24.7 cases per 100,000 population.
In Estonia, the infection rate per 100,000 inhabitants has dropped to 373.1 cases in the last two weeks, which is the 9th highest rate among the EU and EEA countries. In Lithuania, the incidence rate has risen to 599.5 cases in the last two weeks and is currently second only to Cyprus, according to ECDC data.
In Latvia, the 14-day mortality rate with diagnosed Covid-19 has also increased and at the end of the previous week it was 57.7 cases per one million inhabitants. In this indicator, Latvia has risen to the 11th place among the EU and EEA countries with the highest mortality.
The highest mortality rates from diagnosed Covid-19 per million population in the past two weeks have been in Hungary, Croatia and Bulgaria. The corresponding figure is 67.3 in Lithuania and 45.9 in Estonia.
Latvia is also still in the red zone of travel warning cards created by ECDC, which also includes most other European countries. This area is home to regions in Europe with a 14-day cumulative morbidity of between 150 and 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the Baltic States, the dark red zone of the alert card, which shows that the 14-day cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population exceeds 500 cases, is still in the Vilnius region of Lithuania. The rest of Lithuania, like Latvia and Estonia, is in the red zone.
The dark red area is Sweden and Cyprus, as well as some regions in France, the Netherlands and Croatia.
Portugal, most of Ireland, as well as regions in Norway, Finland, Spain, Greece, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic are in the orange zone, with a cumulative incidence of 14 days per 100,000 population, between 25 and 150 cases.
Iceland, as well as the northern part of Finland and Norway, are in the green zone, where the 14-day cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population is less than 25 cases.
No data are available for Danish regions.
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