|
Latest assessment on COVID-19 from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) provides regularly updated information on coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) relevant to Europe through a dedicated webpage. ECDC also publishes regular risk assessments. Because of the rapidly changing situation in Europe, we provide a summary from the one published today in the Box below.
Box . ECDC daily risk assessment on COVID-19, 27 February 2020
The risk associated with COVID-19 infection for people in the EU/EEA and UK is currently considered to be low to moderate.
The risk of the occurrence of similar clusters, similar to the ones in Italy, associated with COVID-19 in other countries in the EU/EEA and the UK is currently considered to be moderate to high.
The risk for people from the EU/EEA and the UK travelling/resident in areas with presumed community transmission is currently high.
The risk for healthcare systems capacity in the EU/EEA and the UK during the peak of the influenza season is low to moderate.
COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019; EU/EEA: European Union/European Economic Area; UK: United Kingdom.
We would also like to remind the readers of Eurosurveillance about our dedicated ‘Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) collection’ that we update regularly with new articles.
|
