LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal reported a record-breaking 303 COVID-19 deaths and 16,432 cases on Thursday, as it struggles to contain a crippling surge in cases over the past month.
The country of 10 million people, which has so far reported a total of 11,608 COVID-19 deaths and 685,383 cases, has the world’s highest seven-day rolling average of cases and deaths per capita, according to data tracker www.ourworldindata.org.
(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, Patricia Rua; Editing by Catarina Demony)
