DrAccording to updated figures as of today, Portugal has a daily average of 1.93 deaths per million inhabitants attributable to the disease in the past seven days, lower than the European Union average in this indicator, which is 2.13, but higher than the world, of 0.63.
Among the EU countries, Finland has the highest average (5.2), followed by Estonia (5), Latvia (4.9), Lithuania (4.7) and Greece (4.5).
Globally and only looking at countries with populations over 1 million, Hong Kong drops from 35.9 to 25.6 but still has the highest average, followed by South Korea (6.76), Finland, Estonia and Latvia.
In terms of new daily cases per million inhabitants, Portugal fell from an average of 1,100 in the previous seven days to 1,060 and moved from 16th to 15th in the European Union.
In this indicator, Cyprus has the highest average at 5,210, followed by Austria (4,260), Luxembourg (2,030), the Netherlands (2,020) and Greece (1,950).
The European average of new daily cases per million inhabitants fell from 1,350 to 1,110 and the global average from 224 to 184.
In the rest of the world, taking into account countries with populations over 1 million, South Korea maintains the highest average of new cases (6,740), followed by Cyprus, Austria, New Zealand (3150) and Iceland (2,940).
The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which was discovered in late 2019 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
The rapidly spreading micron-micron variant has become prevalent in the world since it was first discovered in November in South Africa.
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