The entire territory of Croatia has turned red on the updated Covid map produced by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Thursday.

Last week, the red zones in Croatia were the counties with the seats in Karlovac, Sisak, Bjelovar, Slavonski Brod, Pozega, Virovitica, Osijek and Vukovar, while the City of Zagreb, coastal counties and the north of Croatia remained orange.

However, due to a recent surge in new cases and an increase in hospitalized patients the entire country is now rated red, the color used for areas reporting a 14-day incidence rate of 75-200 with a 4-percent or higher positivity rate, or for areas with lower positivity rate but with the 14-day incidence rate at 200-500.

The only green, i.e. safest category areas, in the EU on the updated map are still in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

The ECDC releases updated Covid maps every Thursday, based on data reported by EU countries.