Portugal is the European Union country with the most new daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per million inhabitants in the last seven days, according to the.
Portugal has today recorded 34 more deaths associated with covid-19 and 40,090 new infections, according to data from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
One of the world's worst COVID-19 hotspots last winter, Portugal has since become Europe's vaccination success story, with nearly nine out of ten people fully immunized. But a new surge in cases has put the authorities back on alert.