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In six months, between March 1 and August 30, 5,882 more people died in Portugal than in the same period of 2019, and 3,757 more than in the same period of 2018, a variation that was mainly due to the increase in deaths of people with 75 or more, said this Friday the National Institute of Statistics (INE). These are data that include deaths from all causes.
According to these data, which are still preliminary, in more than half of the country’s municipalities, deaths in the last four weeks (between August 3 and 30) were higher than the same period last year and, in this group 41 municipalities stand out. in which the total number of deaths was even 1.5 times higher, specifies the INE in an analysis of “the demographic and territorial expression of the covid-19 pandemic” in Portugal.
Only part of this excess mortality is due to deaths from and with covid-19 registered by the General Directorate of Health, which until the end of August amounted to 1852. The excess mortality from all causes observed since the beginning of the epidemic in In addition, Portugal has been analyzed in several studies. The researchers speculate that it may be because some people died of the disease outside the hospital setting, without access to diagnostic tests, and others, with serious or chronic diseases, died because they did not seek it for fear of infection or because considered treatments have been canceled. not urgent.
Based on mortality and a series of other indicators, the INE carries out a synthetic analysis of the covid-19 epidemic in Portugal, which maintains “a high territorial heterogeneity”. At the end of August, he points out, a trend was observed to increase the number of new cases, with values higher than 2,500 as of September 7 (accumulated in seven days), which amounted to 3,075 new cases (corresponding to 3 new cases for every 10,000 inhabitants) last Wednesday.
In 53 municipalities, the number of new confirmed cases per 10,000 inhabitants was even higher than this value, with a set of 13 municipalities in the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) and neighboring territories, and 11 municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area ( AMP). ).
In the seven days ending on September 6, AML accounted for 40% of the country’s new cases (this metropolitan area included 28% of the resident population in 2019), but in recent weeks there has also been an increase the number of new cases in the AMP, which was close to the values of new confirmed cases per 10,000 inhabitants observed for the entire country. The new cases registered in the two metropolitan areas represented more than half (56%) of the total number of new cases in the country, where, as of September 6, they were 58.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the North region, 29 municipalities registered a value above the country’s average: Arouca, Póvoa de Varzim, Vila do Conde, Santo Tirso and Paredes, and the municipalities of Lousada, Felgueiras, Paços de Ferreira, Castelo de Paiva and Penafiel in Tâmega and Sousa, and Guimarães, Vila Nova de Famalicão and Vizela no Ave. With values higher than seven new cases per 10,000 inhabitants, the municipalities of Sernancelhe (Douro) and Vimioso (Terras de Trás-os-Montes)).
In the AML, of the total of 18 municipalities, 11 presented values above the national: Sintra and Amadora, with five or more confirmed cases per 10,000 inhabitants, followed by the municipalities of Vila Franca de Xira, Odivelas, Lisbon, Oeiras, Loures , Setúbal, Barreiro, Mafra and Seixal.
Also some municipalities in the Centro regions (Arruda dos Vinhos, Santa Comba Dão, Cantanhede, Águeda and Sátão), Alentejo (Odemira, Santarém, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Campo Maior, Sines, Benavente and Mora) and Algarve (Loulé) had higher values at national value.
with Lusa
