Mortality in Portugal in May remained at pre-pandemic values, revealed this Friday, 18 June, the National Statistics Institute (INE), indicating that 8.584 people died in that month, 10,5% less than in the same month of 2020.
Of the total deaths in May, only 0,6% were people with Covid-19, adds the INE, noting that between May 3 and June 6 of this year «the number of deaths remained relatively stable around the 2015 average -2019”, ie close to pre-pandemic values.
The number of deaths in May was, even so, "slightly higher" than in April, but far from the month of January, the worst since the beginning of the pandemic, in which 19.641 people died in Portugal.
INE also highlights that in the months of March and April 2021, 8,3% to 11,5% fewer children were born in relation to the same months in 2020, «maintaining the downward trend seen since July 2020».
From January to April, 3.482 fewer children were born alive in Portugal, but in March and April there was a “slight recovery” of the negative natural balance, with a smaller difference between the number of new births and deaths.
With regard to weddings, after an abrupt drop in the number of celebrations in 2020, due to restrictions imposed because of covid-19, INE indicates that in April, the number of weddings (1.381) was almost equal to the number celebrated between January and March (1.430).
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