SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 18 May-2021

May . 18 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 www.ine.pt page 11/23 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt Number of new confirmed cases (last 7 days) of COVID-19 and respective rate of change, Portugal, per day (up to 10 May 2021) Note: The number of new cases includes the +4,375 confirmed cases resulting from the historical update released by the Directorate-General of Health in the COVID-19 Status Report made available on 16 November (data on the situation up to 15 November) with impact on the new cases in the last 7 days for the period 15-21 November. The 599 new cases related to positive laboratory notifications reporting to the weekend of 3 and 4 April, disseminated by DGS in the Status Report of 6 April, were distributed over these two days according to the distribution of new cases that occurred in the previous four weekends. The dates marked on the graph axis correspond to Sundays. • On 5 May 2021, date of the last data update per municipality, there were 54 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (last 14 days) per 100 thousand inhabitants in Portugal; Territorial concentration of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (last 14 days), in relation to the resident population and 14-day cumulative incidence rate, Portugal • Compared to the previous two weeks, the incidence rate declined, and the territorial concentration of new cases stabilised; • The number of municipalities with 14-day cumulative incidence values below 120 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants has been increasing overall since the beginning of February – there were 19 municipalities on 9 February and 272 on 5 May; Note: For the calculation of the location coefficients zero cases were considered for the municipalities with no value in the Directorate-General of Health Status report (0 or< 3 cases).