Cyprus off "red list" as COVID-19 diagnosis rate declines

[Paphos Life]

A total of 3,833 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Cyprus between 5 – 18 May, 2021, and according to the National Surveillance Report, published Friday by the Ministry of Health, the 14- day cumulative diagnosis rate is 431.6 per 100,000 population

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[Varky]

Which 'red list'?

[Dominic]

Read the article.

Actually, scratch that. For some reason the relevant sentence hadn't copied across. I have added the following:

A total of 3,833 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Cyprus between 5 – 18 May, 2021, and according to the National Surveillance Report, published Friday by the Ministry of Health, the 14- day cumulative diagnosis rate is 431.6 per 100,000 population. This, according to the Ministry, is below the “safety threshold” of 500 cases per 100,000 population, set by ECDC to categorise countries as “red.”

[Dominic]

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

[Diocletian]

Well, that's odd because the very same report from the ECDC has Cyprus on 521.84 per 100k. Which is red.

[PolemIan]

Well, that's odd because the very same report from the ECDC has Cyprus on 521.84 per 100k. Which is red.

If you download or view the supporting data file that supports the weekly colour coded map, it shows Cyprus at 486 per 100k for the reporting period, which is still red but below the 500 threshold for dark red.

Ian