With a daily average of 1,150 new cases per million inhabitants, Portugal is ahead of Germany (826), Finland (766), Luxembourg (743) and Italy (696). Worldwide, Portugal is the third country with more than one million inhabitants in the number of new daily cases, behind Australia (1,630) and New Zealand (1,480).

The European Union's daily average for this indicator is 447 new cases, while the world average is 64.

Death rate

Regarding the number of new daily deaths attributed to covid-19 per million inhabitants, Portugal is the eighth country in the European Union, with an average of 1.97 deaths in the last seven days.

Finland is the Member State with the most new daily deaths per million inhabitants (5.4), followed by Malta (03), Greece (2.9), Slovakia (2.6) and Hungary (2.4).

At a global level, and considering only countries or territories with more than one million inhabitants, Finland is also the country with the highest average in this indicator, followed by Greece (2.9), New Zealand (2.7), the United Kingdom (2.7) and Slovakia (2.6). Portugal is the ninth country with the world's highest average of new deaths per million inhabitants in the last seven days.

The European Union average of new deaths is 1.43 new deaths daily with covid-19 and the world average is 0.2.