During the first two months of 2021, excessive mortality in the EU began to decline: + 17% in January and + 5% in February after + 40% in November 2020 (compared to the averages of the same months in 2016 – 2019), according to data released today by Eurostat, the EU statistical office.
However, according to Eurostat, the rate rose again in March (+ 10%) and April 2021 (+ 21%), with national rates ranging from -6% in Portugal and -5% in Sweden to + 66 % in Poland and + 76% in Bulgaria.
Between January 2020 and April 2021, the EU experienced two full cycles of excessive mortality: the first between March and May 2020 (peaking + 25% in April) and the second between August 2020 and April 2021 (peaking + 40% in November) .
In Cyprus this percentage reached 29.7% in April, from 6.9% in March, -3.8% in February and 11.1% in January.
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