Portugal is already the country with the least cases of covid-19 in the European Union (EU) per million inhabitants, according to the Our World in Data (OWID) website, which compiles epidemic data from around the world. On February 5, Portugal was still the country with the most new infections per million residents.
With an average of 86.62 cases per million over the last seven days, Portugal has surpassed Germany by 96.98 and Denmark, which, contrary to what has happened here, has seen the daily number of new people infected since February 14 , although the behavior of the number of new cases in Denmark is not so linear.
Business had already written on Tuesday that Portugal was the third EU country with fewer cases, and predicted it would overtake Germany as early as Wednesday, which has been confirmed, according to the latest OWID data released today for March 3. According to what Prime Minister António Costa said at the end of last month, Portugal is expected to present the deconfination plan on the 11th, now knowing that it is the country in the EU with fewer new cases per million inhabitants.
Still, there are other concerns, such as the low number of beds available in the infirmary and in the intensive care units (ICU) that have delayed the lifting of measures.
This same lack of definition should start with schools, although Marta Temido defended on Monday in an interview with Antena 1 that the country “is far from peaceful” and that it is not yet time to talk about returning to schools and that “a very important final effort” is needed.
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