According to the statistical website Our World in Data, Portugal is the second country in the European Union with the highest number of new daily SARS-CoV-2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last week and the 20th country in the world.
Over the past week, the country has registered an average of 203 new cases per day, which is only surpassed by Cyprus, with an average of 520 new cases.
After Portugal in this indicator are Spain (157), Luxembourg (98), Ireland (88), Greece (69) and Denmark (58). The Union countries with the lowest number of new cases are further east: Romania and Poland, with an average of two new cases every day, Hungary and Slovakia (four new cases), Germany (six cases) and Austria (seven cases).
Although the United Kingdom is not a member of the European Union, it is among the countries on the European continent with the highest number and an average of seven days out of 360 new cases.
The average number of new cases in the last seven days in the European Union is 39 and 49 in the world.
Among the rest of the world with a population of over one million, Portugal is ranked 20th on a list led by Mongolia (666 new cases daily), Namibia (618), Colombia (538) and Cyprus.
In terms of new deaths in the past seven days, in the European Union only Romania (5.01), Latvia (1.89) and Bulgaria (1.17) exceed 01.
Portugal has an average of 0.39 new deaths in seven days, lower than the European Union average of 0.6.
In the rest of the world, Paraguay (16.6 new deaths per day), Namibia (14), Colombia (11.8), Argentina (10.54) are the countries with a population of more than one million that are in the worst position.
In terms of vaccinations, Portugal has 37.5% of the population fully vaccinated, according to data updated Sunday in Our World in Data, slightly above the European Union average of 34.8%.
In terms of daily doses of vaccine administered per 100 inhabitants, Portugal is the country with the highest EU average of 1.75 doses.
Within the Union, it is in Portugal that the higher prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant among genetically sequenced samples – 73.8% – rises to 97.53% in the United Kingdom.
According to the latest estimate by France Presse, the covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,980,935 deaths worldwide as a result of more than 183.7 million infections with the new coronavirus.
Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, 17,117 people have died and 890,571 cases have been reported in Portugal, according to the General Directorate of Health.
The respiratory illness is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently variants identified in countries such as the UK, India or South Africa.
