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1:53 AM MYT LISBON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) The number of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal almost doubled during the second wave of the pandemic compared with the first, according to a survey carried by the Portuguese newspaper Publico on Thursday. In the first five months of the pandemic, Portugal recorded 1,735 deaths linked to the new coronavirus, while the number of fatalities rose to 3,229 between the beginning of August and December. According to Vasco Ricoca Peixoto, a researcher at the National School of Public Health in Portugal, this increase in deaths during the second wave in Portugal occurred because the number of infections is higher, reaching more people in the older age groups, who are at higher risk.
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LISBON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) The number of COVID-19 deaths in Portugal almost doubled during the second wave of the pandemic compared with the first, according to a survey carried by the Portuguese newspaper Publico on Thursday.
In the first five months of the pandemic, Portugal recorded 1,735 deaths linked to the new coronavirus, while the number of fatalities rose to 3,229 between the beginning of August and December.
According to Vasco Ricoca Peixoto, a researcher at the National School of Public Health in Portugal, this increase in deaths during the second wave in Portugal occurred because the number of infections is higher, reaching more people in the older age groups, who are at higher risk.