Portugal is the EU country with the highest average of new daily cases of Covid-19 – Portugal
Portugal is the European Union country with the most new daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per million inhabitants in the last seven days, according to the statistical website Our World in Data.
With a daily average of 1,150 new cases per million inhabitants, Portugal is ahead of Germany (826), Finland (766), Luxembourg (743) and Italy (696). Worldwide, Portugal is the third country with more than one million inhabitants in the number of new daily cases, behind Australia (1,630) and New Zealand (1,480).
The daily average of the European Union in this indicator is at 447 new ones, while the world average is at 64.
Regarding the number of new deaths attributed to Covid-19 per million inhabitants, Portugal is the eighth country in the European Union, with an average of 1.97 deaths in the last seven days.
Finland is the Member State with the most new daily deaths per million inhabitants (5.4), followed by Malta (03), Greece (2.9), Slovakia (2.6) and Hungary (2.4).
At a global level, and considering only countries or territories with more than one million inhabitants, Finland is also the country with the highest average in this indicator, followed by Greece (2.9), New Zealand (2.7), the United Kingdom (2.7) and Slovakia (2.6). Portugal is the non-country with the highest world average of new deaths per million inhabitants in the last seven days.
The European Union average of new deaths is 1.43 new deaths daily with Covid-19 and worldwide is 0.2.
Covid-19 has already caused more than 50 million infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and more than six million deaths have been attributed to the disease worldwide.
The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
The Ómicron variant that spreads and suffers in the world quickly, became since the first time, in November, South Africa.