Sixth lowest daily Covid death rate in the EU

Portugal is one of the countries in the European Union with the fewest deaths attributed to Covid-19, according to data from the statistical site Our World in Data.

According to figures updated to date, Portugal has a daily average of 2.25 deaths per million inhabitants attributed to the disease in the last seven days, below the European Union average for this indicator, which is 3.37, but above the world average of 0.91.

Of the EU countries, Latvia has the highest average (9.26), followed by Estonia (8.3), Lithuania (8.1), Bulgaria (7.25) and Denmark (6.9).

Globally, Hong Kong has the highest average (25.5 deaths per day attributed to Covid-19), followed by Latvia, Estonia, Georgia (8.1) and Lithuania.

Concerning daily new cases per million inhabitants, Portugal has had an average of 1,040 in the last seven days, the 11th highest.

In this indicator, Latvia has the highest average of 3,980, followed by the Netherlands (3,640), Austria (3,290), Denmark (2,850) and Estonia (2,540).

The European average of new daily cases per million inhabitants is 1,070, and the world average is 193.

In the rest of the world, considering only countries with more than one million inhabitants, Iceland has the highest average of new cases (6,800), followed by Hong Kong (5,680), New Zealand (4,300) and South Korea (4,370).

Covid-19 has caused at least 5,978,400 deaths worldwide since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest balance of the agency France-Presse, released on Saturday.

In Portugal, since March 2020, 21,199 people have died, and 3,332,134 cases of infection have been counted, according to the latest data from the health authority (DGS).

The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

The Omicron variant, which spreads and mutates rapidly, has become dominant worldwide since it was first detected in South Africa in November.