SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 5 Feb-2021

February . 05 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 www.ine.pt page 14/20 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt COVID-19: a territorial view on demographic context and territorial expression of the pandemic The expression of the pandemic on national territory continues to be characterised by a high degree of heterogeneity. Some of the results obtained in this context: • In the Alentejo, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (AML) and Centro regions, the only ones to exceed the national average, the number of deaths between December 21, 2020 and January 17, 2021 was 1.3 times higher than in the same reference period (average for the same period in the years 2015 to 2019); • In 72 of the 308 Portuguese municipalities the number of deaths between December 21 and January 17 was 1.5 times higher than that observed in the reference period; Ratio between deaths in the last 4 weeks and deaths in the same reference period (average for the period from 2015 to 2019), Portugal and NUTS 2, weeks 29 March 2020 and 17 January 2021 Number of deaths in the last four weeks (17 January 2021) per deaths in the same period of reference (average for the same period from 2015 to 2019), Portugal, NUTS 3 and municipality