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Portugal registered the highest number of new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last seven days (16,247), with an increase of 165% compared to October 7, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
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 are the highest number reached so far 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 disseminated daily on the pandemic, the INE carried out a reading of the evolution of the new infected, from the beginning of March to the present, concluding that there was an “exponential increase in new cases of covid-19, in the accumulated seven days “. on April 2 with 5,618 “, which corresponds to 5.5 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants, but that increase was exceeded on 4 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 was an exponential increase in new cases of contagion in a week, with values above 10,000 since October 14, with the highest figure so far on Wednesday: 16,247 new cases seven days, which yields 15.8 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants.
On October 18, the date of the last update of the INE data on municipalities, there were 98.9 confirmed cases of contagion in the country per 10,000 inhabitants and in 34 of them the number of new cases was higher than the national average in 34 municipalities.
According to the INE “the expression of the pandemic continues to be characterized by high territorial heterogeneity”
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