As was already the case in Northern and Western Europe, the south of the continent is now completely red on the coronavirus map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The ECDC publishes its colour-coded map of the continent every Thursday, with shades based on the number of Covid-19 infections in the past 14 days. The colours vary from green to yellow, red and dark red, depending on the severity of the epidemiological situation.
This week's ECDC map is mainly coloured red and dark red, with any yellow previously still showing in Italy now fully red.
Spain is also completely dark red this week.
On the mainland, only Romania still sees most of its territory coloured yellow and green, apart from its capital Bucharest. Overseas territories such as Guadeloupe and Saint Martin, Martinique and Mayotte are also still yellow.
Belgium has been showing completely dark red on the ECDC map since 4 November.
The ECDC colours a country or region red if the 14-day incidence (the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants) exceeds 75 and the positivity ratio is higher than 4%, or if the incidence is above 200, regardless of the positivity ratio.
From 500 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the map turns dark red.
