The whole of Italy remains in dark red, in the range of greatest Covid risk, according to the latest update of the color map of the ECDC, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. While in various areas of Europe the gray color is advancing, indicating a test rate of less than 600 per 100 thousand inhabitants, an insufficient level to determine the stratification of Covid risk. Dark red is still the dominant color in a large part of the central block of the EU: in addition to the Italian peninsula, all of France, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia, Portugal to the west, Portugal further to the north are of this color. ‘Ireland and Iceland, and further east Slovakia, Greece and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The lower part of Denmark, some regions of Spain and a good part of Finland are also dark red. Romania and Bulgaria remain with a predominance of yellow, where there are small areas in light red. Croatia and almost all of the Czech Republic are totally in light red, apart from a small area in dark red. The rest of the EU is in gray, a color that characterizes entire countries, such as Poland, Hungary, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. For Germany, on the other hand, in the last week there are “insufficient data available” for the purposes of the map that is drawn up on the basis of the new cases recorded in the last 14 days per 100 thousand inhabitants and the rate of positives among the tests carried out, weighted by the vaccination rate of the population.