The country has grown this week from 433 new cases per day to 768 per million inhabitants, moving from the 11th EU country with fewer new cases to 7th in the list of the worst epidemiological member countries.
The EU country with the highest average number of new cases continues to be Denmark, especially hit by a new variant of the Omicron virus responsible for covid-19, which has grown from 1,550 to 2,090 new cases per million daily.
This is followed by Malta, where the indicator increased from 409.94 to 1220, Ireland (an increase from 945 to 1050), France (an increase from 783 to 1040) and Spain (an increase from 597 to 904).
The average number of new cases in the EU per million population is currently 576 cases (last week there were 541 cases), which is much higher than the world average (94 new cases).
Among the countries of the world with a population of more than one million, Denmark repeats itself as the country with the highest number of cases in the past seven days, followed by the United Kingdom (1470), Ireland, France and Switzerland (1010).
In terms of daily deaths per million inhabitants, some of the Union countries with the most new cases, on the other hand, are among those where covid-19 caused the fewest deaths.
This is the case for Portugal, which has moved up from 8th to 5th in the EU with the lowest number of covid-19-related deaths, with a daily average of 1.35 over the past seven days, improving from an average of 1. 69 from last week.
Better are only Cyprus (1.28), Malta (1.11), Spain (1.08) and Sweden (0.55).
For this indicator, the European average is 3.86, and the worst indicators at the European level are mainly located in the east: Hungary (13.80), Croatia (12.04), Poland (11.74), Bulgaria (10, 19) and Slovakia (10.05). ).
Globally, there were 0.9 new deaths daily per million population attributed to COVID-19.
Trinidad and Tobago is the country with the highest average mortality rate (19.14), followed by Georgia (15.83), Hungary, Croatia and Poland.
According to the latest report from Agence France-Presse, Covid-19 has killed more than 5.39 million people worldwide since the start of the pandemic.
According to the General Directorate of Health, since March 2020, 18,874 people have died in Portugal and 1,279,785 cases of infection have been registered.
