The Management Board approves and monitors the implementation of ECDC’s work programme and budget, it adopts its annual report and accounts - all in all, it acts as the governing body of the Centre.
ECDC commissions an annual External Quality Assessment (EQA) scheme for the serotyping and molecular-based cluster analysis of
Salmonella to monitor the typing methods used, data quality and comparability, and the capability of laboratories to perform these methods.
HelicsWin.Net (also referred to as HWN) is a software application developed for the manual entry of data of the ECDC HAI-Net surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 7-13 June 2025 and includes updates on respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA, West Nile virus, measles, autochthonous chikungunya virus, mass gathering monitoring (Jubilee of 2025 in Italy, Hajj – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, EuroPride - Portugal, invasive pneumococcal disease, influenza A(H5N1), Risk Assessment under production.
This report presents a description of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) between 1 August 2024 and 28 March 2025.
ECDC is closely monitoring increasing SARS-CoV-2 activity in the EU/EEA, and the emergence of the recently identified Omicron-descendant variant NB.1.8.1, which has been associated with a rise in infections in some countries in Asia, including China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Increases in infections due to SARS-CoV-2, associated with an increase in detections of the NB.1.8.1 variant, have been observed in some countries in Asia (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore) in recent weeks. ECDC and WHO have classified NB.1.8.1 as a variant under monitoring (VUM).
From 9 to 13 June 2025, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) delivered the Rapid Risk Assessment and Survey Methods module in Athens, Greece, to fellows from the EPIET, EUPHEM, and PAE programmes. In addition, the module was offered to fellows and external participants of the MediPIET programme.
Between 10–12 June 2025, 24 representatives from the Eastern Partnership countries, from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, gathered in Stockholm and online for a three-day workshop hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), focused on simulation exercises (SimExes) and after-action reviews (AARs).
