Over the past two weeks, the incidence of Covid-19 has continued to fall relatively rapidly in most European countries, so although Latvia is improving, it still ranks third among the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries with the highest rates. infection rates with Covid-19, according to data collected by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Last week, Latvia took the 5th place.
ECDC estimates of the situation in the previous two weeks from 10 to 23 May show that the cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population in Latvia has decreased to 366 cases. Until the beginning of this week, the 14-day infection rate was higher than in Latvia only in Lithuania and Sweden. The Netherlands, on the other hand, is only slightly behind Latvia.
The highest incidence rate is currently in Lithuania at 467.4 cases per 100,000 population, and the lowest in Malta at 9.3 cases per 100,000 population.
In Estonia, the infection rate per 100,000 population has dropped to 250.7 cases in the last two weeks, the 9th highest rate between the EU and EEA countries, according to ECDC data.
In Latvia, the 14-day mortality rate with diagnosed Covid-19 has also decreased and at the end of the previous week it was 59.8 cases per one million inhabitants. In this respect, Latvia has retained the 6th 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 Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria. The corresponding figure is 58.7 in Lithuania and 27.8 in Estonia.
Latvia is also still in the red zone of the travel warning card created by ECDC. It is located in regions of Europe with a 14-day cumulative morbidity of between 150 and 500 cases per 100,000 population.
Estonia and most of Lithuania are also in this area. In contrast, the dark red area 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.-
Apart from the Vilnius region, only the northern part of Sweden is currently in the dark red area.
Other European regions, on the other hand, are almost halved between the red zone and the orange zone, where the 14-day cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population is between 25 and 150 cases.
Iceland is located in the green zone, where the 14-day cumulative morbidity per 100,000 population is less than 25 cases, as two regions in Finland and Norway.
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