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Portugal registered the highest number of new cases of infection by the new coronavirus in the last seven days (16,247), with a 165% increase compared to October 7, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The data appear in the INE publication “COVID-19: a reading of the demographic context and territorial expression of the pandemic” and show that 16,247 new cases of infection detected in the last seven days They are the highest number reached to date and correspond to 15.8 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants.
On Wednesday, Portugal had registered a total of 106 confirmed cases per 10,000 inhabitants, which represents an increase of 33% in relation to the accumulated on October 7, the reference date of the previous INE highlight.
Based on the data released daily on the pandemic, the INE read the evolution of new cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease, from the beginning of March to the present, concluding that there was an “exponential increase in new cases of Covid-19, accumulated in seven days on April 2 with 5,618”, corresponding to 5.5 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants, but that increase was exceeded on the 4th of this month.
Between April 2 and the end of August, the number of new cases was below or around 2,500 in seven days and from then on there was an acceleration, with values above four thousand new cases from September 13 onwards . 5,000 new cases since September 28.
The number of new cases accumulated in seven days and registered on April 2 was exceeded for the first time on October 4 (5,856, corresponding to 5.7 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants).
Recently, there has been an exponential increase in new cases of infection again within a week, with values greater than 10,000 as of October 14, registering the highest value so far on Wednesday: 16,247 new cases in seven days, which yields 15.8 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants.
On October 18, date of the last update of the INE data of the municipalities, there were 98.9 confirmed cases of infection in the country for every 10,000 inhabitants and in 34 of them, the number of new cases was higher than the national average in 34 municipalities.
COVID-19. New cases detected in 34 municipalities exceed the national average
According to the INE, “the expression of the pandemic continues to be characterized by high territorial heterogeneity.”
