Portugal is currently the country of the EU with the lowest incidence rate of covid-19, according to the most recent data released this Thursday , March 18th, by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC, in acronym in English).
In the last 14 days, Portugal recorded an incidence of 93 cases of infection with the new coronavirus per 100 thousand inhabitants, according to the ECDC weekly report. Second in the list of countries with the lowest numbers in the EU (considering only the 27 Member States) is Ireland, with 144 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, and third is Spain, with 147.
