The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has shared this week’s maps of the progression of COVID-19 infections. ONE Pandemic situation in Portugal remains unchanged compared to last week and the general situation in western Europe has changed little. Most are still painted in dark red, the color that corresponds to the existence of more than 300 positive cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Comparing with the maps shared last week, there are improvements in France, with some regions switching to orange, as well as in northern Spain. Italy has also been dark red for several weeks now. Some countries in the Mediterranean area also register improvements, lowering the alert to orange.

See the maps shared by ECDC in the gallery:

Portugal is once again in the spotlight for the negative, as it is Considered the European Union country with the most cases of COVID-19 infection per million inhabitants in the last seven days. It is also the second country in the world on this recordafter Taiwan, according to Our World in Data.

ONE daily average of new cases is 2,290 per million inhabitants, followed by Ireland, with 636Germany, with 533, Italy with 448 and France with 435. Worldwide, Taiwan has the highest average of new daily cases (3,300), followed by Portugal, Australia (1,920), New Zealand (1,520) and Panama (712) .

The average number of infections increased again from 22,805 cases to 29,101 daily in Portugal and regions record a coronavirus transmissibility index (Rt) above the threshold of 1, according to data from the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA). The Rt at the level dropped from 1.23 to 1.13, but all national regions presented the average of this indicator at five days above 1, which “indicates an increasing trend” of infections. By regions, the North has an Rt of 1.12, the Center with 1.06, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo with 1.20, the Alentejo with 1.09, the Algarve with 1.12, the Azores with 1, 21 and Madeira with 1.18, adds the report. The Rt is greater than 1 since the 26th of April.

THE average number of daily cases of infection within five days went from 22,805 to 29,101 in Portugal, being minimized lowest on the mainland (27,851). the regions also show an insufficiency rate All per 100 million inhabitants in 14 days, the highest in the Azores (4,196.1), followed by the North (3,872.1) and the Center (3,580.7) .

At European level, INSA warns that the notification rate accumulated over 14 days of 3,373 cases and with growing trend makes “only Portugal is in this situation”since 24 countries were analyzed that show an increasing trend in the number of new infections, registering an R less than 1.