Portugal: Worst in Europe for new Covid-19 cases, second in world
Portugal is also the EU country with the most deaths per million inhabitants per day in the last seven days. It is third in the world in this indicator.
Portugal continues to be the European Union (EU) country with the highest number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per million inhabitants in the last seven days and is second in the world in this indicator.
According to the statistical website Our World in Data, Portugal is also the EU country with the most deaths per million inhabitants per day in the last seven days. It is third in the world in this indicator.
The daily average of new cases in Portugal has fallen from 2,380 per million inhabitants a fortnight ago to 1,560 today. In Europe, it is followed by France with 703, Germany with 685, Luxembourg (673) and Greece (614).
Worldwide, considering countries and territories with over one million inhabitants, Taiwan has the highest average of new daily cases (2,410), followed by Portugal, Australia (1,060), New Zealand (977) and Bahrain (814).
Regarding daily deaths attributed to Covid-19, Portugal maintains the highest in the European Union, with 3.63, almost identical to the average of 3.68 a fortnight ago, followed by Finland, with 1.47, Estonia with 1.29, Spain with 1.14 and Malta with 1.11.
In global terms, looking at territories and countries with more than one million inhabitants, Oman has the highest daily average of recent deaths attributed to Covid-19 (10), followed by Taiwan (6.29), Portugal, Uruguay (2.43) and New Zealand (1.95).
The average of daily new cases per million inhabitants in the European Union is 415, and of recent daily deaths, 0.63.
The world average of new cases is 67 and of recent deaths attributed to Covid-19 is 0.17.
