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Portugal registered 2,506 cases of covid-19, this Monday, the lowest number in a week. There are another 46 deaths, the daily maximum since the pandemic began.
Black Monday. Portugal registered 46 deaths from the covid-19 pandemic in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 2,590. The figure in the bulletin of the General Health Directorate, this Monday, exceeds black days like Friday (40 dead) and on Saturday, with 39.
The number of hospitalizations took another big jump, with 133 more people admitted to the hospital, the second fastest growing day, after 150 on Sunday, while the number of patients in intensive care units went from 284 to 294 (more 10).
The DGS bulletin registers another 1,523 recovered patients, for a cumulative total of 83294. The accounts made, with 937 most active cases of covid-19, are, to this date, 60963 people with the disease caused by SARS-CoV- 2 currently in the country.
There are also 66,428 people under surveillance, an increase of 1,623 compared to Sunday.
The first death on the island of Madeira enters the black accounts of the day
This high number of deaths, which included the first fatality in Madeira, a death announced on Saturday and now recorded in the DGS bulletin. According to the data revealed this Monday, the Northern Region (RN) recorded another 20 deaths associated with covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,151, in what is the area of the country most affected by the disease .
The Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (RLVT) registered 17 more deaths, for a total of 1,021, while the Central Region lost six more lives due to covid-19, for a total of 323 since the start of the pandemic.
In a record that only the Azores escape, which since May 12 has not lost anyone to covid-19, there is another death to be noted in Alentejo (50 in total) and another in the Algarve (29 since the beginning of the pandemic).
The death profile is almost always the same. In essence, it penalizes the elderly, as shown by the data of this Monday, in which 37 of the 46 victims were over 80 years old, 11 men and 26 women.
In a similar alignment to the previous ones, covid-19 took his own life in the 50-59 year age bracket, one man, and another, also male, in the next age group, 60-69 years old.
The second most affected echelon, 70-79, lost seven more lives, five men and two women.
The record of deaths is known on the day that Portugal added 2,506 cases of covid-19, the lowest number of the week, registering values similar to those of last Monday, when 2,447 infections were registered.
The record, this Monday, is lower than the 3,062 on Sunday, which followed three days with more than four thousand cases reported daily. With another 2506 cases registered this Monday, the accumulated figure now stands at 146,847 positives.
The Northern Region registered an average of more than 1,000 cases per day in October
The Northern Region continues with more than a thousand cases for the third consecutive day, registering 1202 new infections until midnight on Sunday, which is equivalent to 48% of the total national cases. Figures below, in percentage and daily total, of the records above two thousand, between November 27 and 30, when it accumulated more than half of the positive tests in the country.
With 36,298 accumulated cases since October 1, the Northern Region was once again the most affected by the pandemic, registering, in the 31 days that the second wave caught, an average of 1,170 infections per day.
The Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, which on Saturday reached a record of 2006 cases, registered 845 new infections, according to the balance of the last 24 hours, figures in line with the October average (869 per day, on average, for a total of 26,941 cases as of October 1).
In total, RN accumulates 66,145 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, which was detected for the first time on March 2, precisely in the northernmost part of the country. Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, so far, have reported 61,064 positives. In total, the two regions add 127,209 infections, 87% of the national total, 146,847, figures for this Monday.
The Central Region, which is not immune to the growth of cases registered in the last month, reported 33 more infections, slightly above the average of the last 31 days, which was 280 infections, for a total of 8,706 cases since 1 October. month the pandemic accelerated.
In Alentejo, with 42 more cases, the total since the start of the pandemic is now 2,850, slightly less than the Algarve, which is dealing with a daily number higher than the average for the region, having registered 66 more positives, for a cumulative of 2904.
On the islands the trend of the first wave was reversed, in which the Azores were the most affected. Now it is in the forest where the cases increase the most, with 13 more registered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 446. The Azores archipelago had another positive, for a cumulative of 371.
