Death statistics in Portugal for 2018:
- 113,051 (11/1,000 inhabitants). Majority people over 75 year old.
From the above number:
- 32,732 due to circulatory diseases: heart, strokes, etc
- 27,849 due to tumours
Covid-19: thus far, death rate in people over 70 is 8%. Similar to other countries whose population is dominated by old people. But yesterday we had a child of 14 that died. The cocktail is explosive - people with preconditions like above,plus diabetis, asthma, are a large part of the population, and are critically at risk.