Portugal reports nearly half of all COVID deaths in January alone

5,576 deaths occurred in January 2021 alone in Portugal, representing a catastrophic acceleration of mortality during the pandemic's second year.

In January 2021, Portugal confronted a truth that numbers rarely deliver so starkly: nearly half of every life the country had lost to COVID-19 since the pandemic began was taken in a single month. The collision of a faster-spreading variant and the human instinct to gather during the holidays produced a catastrophe that placed Portugal at the top of a list no nation seeks — the world's highest per capita infection rate. Across the globe, from Japan to Hong Kong to Israel, governments found themselves not lifting restrictions as they had hoped, but deepening them, as the virus demonstrated onc

Portugal reports nearly half of all COVID deaths in January alone

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