With more than 1000 new infections per million inhabitants, Portugal led the corona statistics of the large international database Our World in Data on Wednesday afternoon.
The country recorded more new infections every day on a weekly average than any other country in the world.
Behind in Europe were Sweden and Slovenia.
For comparison: Germany reported around 150 new corona cases per million inhabitants at the time.
The death rate in Portugal is also frightening: statistically speaking, 16 people per million people die every day.
The country ranks second in the world behind Great Britain (17) and just ahead of the Czech Republic (14).
In Germany, an average of 10 people per million inhabitants die from Corona every day.
These figures are doubly worrying because the country actually knows how to fight Corona effectively.
It showed in the first wave, before the summer Portugal was still considered a model student in Corona containment.
How did it come to this in Portugal?