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This Friday, Portugal registered 5,444 cases of covid-19 and 67 deaths associated with the disease.
Data from the General Directorate of Health (DGS), released this Friday, show a decrease in the number of covid-19 cases compared to Thursday. 5444 infections were recorded, for a total of 285,838, since March 2.
The number of deaths decreased compared to Thursday, the third worst day in history, with 82 deaths recorded. The record 67 more deaths brings the total number of lives lost to the pandemic to 4,276, since the first death associated with the disease was confirmed on March 16.
The number of hospitalized patients, which on Thursday had a reduction on Wednesday and Thursday, rose this Friday to 3,208 (plus 16). In the intensive care units (ICU), at midnight on Thursday, when the DGS bulletin closed, 526 people were hospitalized, 10 more than on Thursday, the first day in almost two weeks with no increase in seriously ill and new maximum seriously ill in Portugal.
According to the DGS bulletin this Friday, 199,446 people recovered from the disease, 5,502 of which in the last 24 hours. After all, there are 82,116 active cases of covid-19 in Portugal, 125 less than on Thursday. Also note a decrease in the number of people under surveillance, which dropped to 80,713 (minus 654).
The Northern Region exceeds two thousand registered deaths
The figures of the last days indicated that the statistical data was around the corner and that it was only a matter of time before the Northern Region exceeded a round figure, the two thousand deaths associated with covid-19. With 39 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the northernmost part of the country has lost 2,024 lives to the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the start of the pandemic.
The Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, the second most affected by the pandemic and the most populated in the country, regrets 15 more lives lost, in a total that amounts to 1,533 deaths since the first was registered in the country, on 16 March.
In the center, the record is less harsh, but it makes you think about consistency: eight deaths, which follow the six on Thursday, and the 11 on average during the previous five days. The cumulative figure is 545 in this area.
In a day without fatalities on the islands, the Alentejo added two more lives lost to covid-19, 108 in total, while the Algarve mourns the death of three more people, 47 since the start of the pandemic.
Older people get less sick but die more
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has already considered the hypothesis advanced by the newspapers, this Friday, to exclude people over 75 years of age from vaccination against covid-19, while the Prime Minister, António Costa, guaranteed that “There is no age limit” and that the elderly will be vaccinated, in which he had the support of the Secretary of State for Health, Lacerda Sales, a doctor by profession.
The coldness of the numbers, day by day, shows that the elderly are the least sick, but those who die the most. The most affected age group, over 80 years old, registered 46 deaths in the last 24 hours, 19 men and 27 women, lives that together represent 69% of the total deaths from Thursday to Friday.
The immediately preceding age group, with people politicians say will be vaccinated, lost 15 lives, nine men and six women, representing 22% of the national daily total of deaths. Adding 6% to the equivalent of the four deaths (three men and one woman) in the 60-69 age bracket, the gray band represents 97% of all deaths in the last 24 hours. The remaining 3% is equivalent to the two deaths (one of each sex) in the age group 50 to 59 years.
The statistical data this Thursday is a picture of the lethality of the virus, which is particularly aggressive among the elderly. Nationally, the +80 level represents 67% of deaths, followed by 70-79 years (20%). The age group 60 to 69 years is equivalent to 8% of all deaths. Together, gray years account for 95% of all deaths associated with covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
One thousand fewer cases than last Friday
The total of 5,444 new cases, a figure presented this Friday, represents a decrease of 1,045 cases compared to 6,489 on Friday of last week, which shows the downward trend in the number of infections to which the health authorities have alluded .
The Northern Region, the most affected by the pandemic, maintained figures similar to those of Wednesday and Thursday and in line with what was registered a week ago. The 3,161 cases registered this week bring the total to about 150,000 infections since the start of the pandemic (149,704).
The Center, which hit an all-time high of 964 on Thursday, returned to figures closer to the average for this second wave, adding another 631 infections to an updated total of 28,050.
With two exceptions, on November 15 and 22, with 452 and 844 cases, respectively, the Lisbon Region and the Tagus Valley have systematically registered more than a thousand cases per day since the start of the pandemic. This Friday is in line with the usual, 1380 cases, 402 less than the 1780 on Thursday and 203 more than on Wednesday.
In Alentejo there are 136 new cases, 49 more than 87 on Thursday, but almost half of the 256 on Wednesday, while in the Algarve the figures are more regular: 81 on Wednesday and 85 on Thursday. 90 followed this Friday, for a cumulative of 5,126.
In the islands, the Azores doubled notifications, from 16 on Thursday (and 18 on Wednesday) to 35 this Friday, with the accumulated figure already at 879 infections. In Madeira there were 11 new cases, five less than on Thursday and a third of the 30 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 853.
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