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The Coronavirus situation in the European Union and Schengen Area countries may not be as bad as it was last winter. However, travelling to a large share of these countries remains risky, and only travel to five EU countries is considered safe.

Updating the maps published in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement within the block amid COVID-19, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has revealed that the only countries that remain green in the maps are Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania (except for Bucharest).

Countries coloured green in the maps are those which have less than 50 cases detected and a test positivity rate under four per cent during the previous 14 days, or a notification rate less than 74 and less than one per cent test positivity rate within the same period.

Travel to these countries is safe, and travellers reaching other EU countries from these five should not be subject to any entry restrictions upon arrival.

Countries in the orange category, on the other side, are those in which the 14-day notification rate is under 50, and the test positivity rate is four per cent or more, as well as countries in which the two weeks notification rate is 50 or above, or it is less than 75 when test positivity rate is one per cent or more.

According to the updated maps of August 26, the following countries and territories are coloured in orange:

Countries in red, on the other hand, are those which have a case notification rate that ranges between 75 to 200 when the test positivity rate of four per cent or more, as well as those with a case notification rate over 200 but less than 500. Those over 500 are categorized as dark red.

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The Member States are advised to impose travel restrictions as pre-departure tests and quarantine requirements for persons travelling from areas in red and, in particular, the dark red category.

This should also apply to essential travellers provided that this does not have a disproportionate impact on the exercise of their function or need. Transport workers, however, should in principle be exempted from testing and quarantine/self-isolation requirements, the EU Commission advises.

Currently, according to ECDC, it is risky to travel to the following countries, which are coloured completely in red: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Lichtenstein and Bulgaria.

Whereas the following are coloured as partly red: France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands. Countries with only one red region are Norway and Finland.

The riskiest regions for travellers are currently those coloured in dark red, which are as follows:

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