Mortality in Portugal between 8 and 21 March remained below average for the same period over the last five years, with deaths attributed to Covid-19 decreasing.
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics published today, between March 8 and 14, 2.128 people died and between March 15 and 21, 2.091 people died, 9,2 percent less and 8,5% less, respectively, than the average of the same weeks between 2015 and 2019.
In the first week, 6,1% of deaths were attributed to Covid-19, a number that dropped to 4,3% in the following week.
Of the 4.219 people who died in this period, 70,4% were 75 years old or more, with a 14,3% decrease in deaths of people between 85 and 89 years compared to the average for the same weeks between 2015 and 2019.
More than 80% of deaths occurred in the North, Center and Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, with Alentejo, Center and Algarve showing numbers of deaths per 41 inhabitants higher than the national value of this indicator, which was XNUMX.
In these two weeks, 62,9% of deaths occurred in hospitals.
Between 8 and 14 March, the number of deaths was below the 2015-2019 average in all regions except Lisbon, which also dropped to below that average the following week.
The number of deaths in Portugal rose from December 28th, starting to decrease from the week of January 25th to 31st, which was the week with the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic (2.036).
The Covid-19 pandemic has already caused 16.848 deaths in Portugal, among the 821.722 confirmed cases of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to the most recent bulletin of the General Directorate of Health.
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