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Latvia has reached the highest mortality rate diagnosed with Covid-19 in the EU / EEA countries

Last week, Latvia reached the highest mortality rate with Covid-19 diagnosis among the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries, ahead of Romania and Bulgaria, which have had the highest mortality rates with Covid-19 so far, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. data collected by the ECDC.

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In the last two weeks in Latvia from 18 to 31 October, the mortality rate with diagnosed Covid-19 reached 244.8 cases per one million inhabitants.

Latvia is following Bulgaria with 242.7 and Romania with 230.3 deaths per million population in the previous two weeks.

Meanwhile, the average mortality rate diagnosed with Covid-19 in the EU and EEA countries at that time was 27.2 cases per million population.

The mortality rate in Latvia’s neighboring countries has also grown relatively rapidly. In Lithuania, the mortality rate in the previous two weeks was 78.4 cases, and in Estonia – 82 cases per million population. Mortality with a diagnosis of Covid-19 was higher in Croatia than in both neighboring countries of Latvia.

Also, in the past two weeks, when the EU and EEA indicators are compared, Latvia with the level of cumulative morbidity per 17,000 inhabitants continued to be in the first place. The court changed the situation in the coming days and overtaken Latvia earlier this week in terms of morbidity Estonia. Yesterday, in the northern neighbor of Latvia, the 14-day cumulative morbidity rate per 100,000 inhabitants reached 1808.1 cases, but in Latvia it has dropped to 1652.8. In Lithuania, this figure dropped yesterday to 1,397.2 infected per 100,000 population.

Baltic countries are close in terms of morbidity Slovenia a Croatia, in which it also exceeds 1 000 cases per 100 000 population. The average incidence rate in the EU and EEA countries in the previous two weeks is 306.2 cases per 100,000 population.

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