Portugal is the seventh EU country with fewer new cases and daily deaths
Portugal is the seventh country in the European Union with the lowest number of deaths and new cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 per million inhabitants, according to the statistical website Our World in Data.
Since last week, the epidemiological situation has worsened little and the country now has a daily average of 208 cases, against the previous 140 cases, going from sixth to seventh EU country with fewer new cases.
The best situation is only in Finland (198), Italy (155), Romania (152), Malta (141) Spain (102) and Sweden (88).
In new cases, Portugal remains below the European average of 442 and far from the countries with the most new cases of infection per million population in the last week, a list led by Slovakia, with an average of 1,810 cases, followed by Slovenia with 1,550, Austria with 1,530, Czech Republic with 1,400 and the Netherlands with 1,230.
These member states also top a list of the five countries with the highest average of new daily cases in the last week in the world, with the world average standing at 69 cases.
In terms of daily deaths attributed to covid-19 per million inhabitants in the last week, Portugal is also the seventh among the 27 EU member states with the lowest number of deaths, with an average of 0.9 deaths, slightly higher than the average of 0.76 recorded last week.
Finland (0.85), France (0.48), Cyprus (0.42), Spain (0.42), Sweden (0.39) and Malta (0.28) follow.
At the opposite end, a list of countries with the highest number of daily deaths is led by Bulgaria (20.18), followed by Croatia (14.77), Latvia (14.39), Romania (14.39), and Hungary ( 13.54)
The European average for this indicator is 3.67 and the world average is 0.91.
In the rest of the world, among countries with more than one million inhabitants, Bulgaria also has a higher average, followed by Georgia (18.77), Ukraine (15.7), Croatia and Latvia.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,148,939 deaths worldwide, among more than 256.91 million new coronavirus infections registered since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest assessment by the agency France-Presse based on official sources.
In Portugal, since March 2020, 18,339 people have died and 1,123,758 cases of infection have been recorded, according to data from the Directorate-General for Health.