Portugal is the European Union country with the most new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per million inhabitants in the last seven days and the second in the world in this indicator, according to the statistical website Our World in Data.

The daily average of new cases is 2,290 per million inhabitants, followed by Ireland with 636, Germany with 533, Italy (448) and France (435).

Considering countries and territories with more than one million inhabitants, Taiwan has the highest average of new daily cases (3,300), followed by Portugal, Australia (1,920), New Zealand (1,520) and Panama (712).

With regard to new daily deaths attributed to covid-19, Portugal also has the highest in the European Union (3.17), followed by Finland, with 3.14, Ireland with 2.12, Greece with 1.97 and Italy 1.68.

In global terms, looking at territories and countries with more than one million inhabitants, Iceland has the highest daily average of new deaths attributed to covid-19 (12.78), followed by Portugal, Finland, New Zealand (2.45 ) and Ireland.

The average number of new daily cases per million inhabitants in the European Union is at 337 and that of new deaths daily at 1.15.

The world average of new cases is at 69 and that of new deaths attributed to Covid-19 is at 0.21.