Portugal remains the European Union (EU) country with the most new cases of Covid per million inhabitants in the last seven days, and is second in the world according to this indicator.
The statistical website Our World in Data, shows Portugal is also the EU country with the most new daily deaths per million inhabitants in the last seven days, and is third in the world using this indicator.
The daily average of new cases in Portugal dropped from 2,380 per million inhabitants two weeks ago to 1,560 today. France follows with 703, Germany with 685, Luxembourg (673) and Greece (614).
Globally, considering countries and territories with more than 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).
With regard to new daily deaths attributed to covid-19, Portugal maintains the highest in the European Union, with 3.63, practically the same as the average of 3.68 two weeks 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 new deaths attributed to covid-19 (10), followed by Taiwan (6.29), Portugal, Uruguay (2.43) and New Zealand (1.95).
The average number of new daily cases per million inhabitants in the European Union is 415, and that of new daily deaths is 0.63.
The world average of new cases is at 67 and that of new deaths attributed to covid-19 is at 0.17.
Source Lusa
