In January this year, an average of 250 fewer people died per day than in the same month last year, with a total of 11,602 deaths, just over half of the numbers.
Covid responsible for 70.8% of excess mortality in 2020 By TPN/Lusa, in News, COVID-19 · 18-04-2021 13:00:00 · 0 Comments
Covid-19 was responsible for 70.8% of the excess mortality in the first year of the pandemic, in which deaths increased 20.8% compared to the average of the previous five years
According to figures released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), 134,278 people died in Portugal between March 2020 and February 2021, 23,089 more than the average for the same period between 2015 and 2019.
Of the total deaths, 16,351 (12.2 percent) were attributed to Covid-19, representing 70.8 percent of the excess mortality for the first year of the pandemic that began with the new coronavirus detected in 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Mortality in 60 municipalities 1.5 times the five-year average By TPN/Lusa, in News · 15-01-2021 14:53:00 · 0 Comments
Mortalities in 60 Portuguese municipalities were 1.5 times higher during December than the average of the last five years for the same period, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
In a bulletin on the impact of Covid-19 on Portuguese territory, INE also noted that 61 percent of new confirmed cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 14 days were recorded in the northern and central regions.
The exponential increase in new confirmed cases from 28 December culminated on 13 January with the highest number of new cases at seven days since the beginning of the pandemic: 61,273.