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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) announced on Wednesday the existence of 1,849 deaths and 61,541 cases of Covid-19 in Portugal since the start of the pandemic.
The death toll rose from 1,846 to 1849, three more than on Tuesday, two in the Lisbon region and the Tagus valley and one in the north.
The number of infected people rose from 60,895 to 61,541, another 646, the highest number of new infections recorded since April 20.
35,151 contacts remain under surveillance, 685 more than Tuesday.
More than 898,000 dead and 27.6 million infected worldwide
The new coronavirus has killed more than 898,503 people and 27,631,550 have been infected in 196 countries and territories since the start of the covid-19 pandemic since December, according to a report by the AFP agency based on official data.
Health authorities considered at least 18,332,900 cases cured.
In the last 24 hours, 4,802 new deaths and 228,717 new cases were registered worldwide. The countries that recorded the highest number of new deaths are India with 1,115 new deaths, Mexico (703) and Brazil (504).
Most affected countries
- United States with 189,698 deaths and 6,328,054 cases
- Brazil with 127,464 deaths and 4,162,073 cases
- India with 73,890 deaths (4,370,128 cases)
- Mexico with 68,484 deaths (642,860 cases)
- United Kingdom with 41,586 deaths (352,560 cases).
- China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) with 85,146 cases and 4,634 deaths.
Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 300,132 deaths and 7,910,027 cases, Europe 219,420 deaths (4,294,551 cases), United States and Canada 198,884 deaths (6,460,551 cases), Asia 108,767 deaths (6,010,154 cases), the Middle East 38,767 deaths (1,610,413 cases), Africa 31,700 deaths (1,315,647 cases) and Oceania 833 deaths (30,208 cases).
Setback in the most advanced vaccine
Clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine project among the Oxford University and AstraZeneca They were suspended on Tuesday after an adverse reaction in a volunteer.
“As part of the ongoing global randomized controlled trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine, our standard review process caused a pause in vaccination to allow for review of safety data,” the company said in a statement. .
Laboratories around the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. There are dozens of teams testing various candidate vaccines, some are more advanced and promising, but scientists caution that none should be ready before the end of this year.
According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (which has a graph showing the progress of the experiments) there are 239 projects and 8 are in the clinical trial phase, which consists of inoculating the vaccine in thousands of volunteers to determine if it really prevents infection.
Despite the now-suspended clinical trial, the project between Oxford University and AstraZeneca is one of the most promising, to which Pfizer and BioNTech, gives Modern and various Chinese projects, namely the CanSinoBIO who has already obtained authorization to administer the vaccine to Chinese military personnel.
António Costa considers that the suspension of the trials of this vaccine is “bad news” and recalls that Portugal has to live with “uncertainty” about the appearance of the vaccine for Covid-19.
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