This report collects all COVID-19 long-term care facilities (LTCF) data reported to ECDC from 2021 and concludes the EU/EEA LTCF COVID-19 specific surveillance data collection from 2021-2023.
This report provides a record of the impact noted by countries on HIV services and monitoring capacity which can be used retrospectively to better understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV situation in the European Region.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) the period 3-9 March 2024 and includes updates on SARS-CoV-2 variant classification, sexually transmitted infections, Psittacosis cases, product safety recall of InterPharma Sodium Chloride 0.9% 30ml linked to Ralstonia pickettii contamination, cholera and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published its latest Annual Epidemiological Reports shedding light on the state of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA).
For 2022, 70 881 confirmed cases of gonorrhoea were reported in 28 EU/EEA countries, with a crude notification rate of 17.9 cases per 100 000 population.