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Portugal surpassed the barrier of a thousand daily cases of covid-19 for the second consecutive day, registering 1,394 new infections, adding 12 deaths.
The day after registering 1,278 cases of covid-19, which was the second worst case since the start of the pandemic, Portugal registered, this Friday, more than a thousand cases a day in 24 hours. With 1,394 infections, the second worst record in history, the country has registered 83,928 coronavirus infections since March 2, when the disease was officially identified in Portuguese lands.
According to the DGS daily bulletin, released this Friday, 12 more deaths were associated with covid-19, for a national total of 2,062.
The number of hospitalized patients increased from 801 to 811 (plus 10), of which 125 (plus ten) are considered serious, requiring treatment in intensive care units.
From Thursday to Friday, the number of people who overcame the disease rose to 52,164, and an additional 647 people were considered to have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
Of the 12 deaths, nine women and two men over 80 years old and one woman over 60 years old years, eight lived in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region (RLVT), one in the Center and three in the North, the most affected by the mortality of the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
Epicenter of the epidemic in the first months of the entry of the disease in Portugal, the North Region (RN) added more than 600 cases for the second consecutive day, this week. After yesterday’s 642, equivalent to 50% of the 1,278 reported on Thursday, RN reported, this Friday, 689 SARS-CoV-2 infections, approximately half of the national daily total (49%). With three more confirmed deaths, there are now 908 deaths associated with the disease in the northern region of the country.
The RLVT, which concentrates 42,266 of the total of 83,928 cases accumulated since March 2 (50.3% nationwide), added, this Friday, 559 more cases, which is equivalent to 40.1% of the daily accumulated. The most populated area of the country added eight more deaths to the black death registry, which totals 822 deaths, DGS data at midnight Thursday.
The other fatality registered in the last 24 hours resided in the Central Region, the third most affected in terms of infections and deaths. There are now 272 deaths recorded in central Portugal, and the number of cases increased from 96 to 6,758.
No Sul, the Algarve once again registered a significant increase, taking into account the total, adding 31 cases, for a total of 1923, after registering 30 on Thursday. Beyond the Tagus, there are 11 new cases in the Alentejo, which now represent 1,615 infections and 25 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
In the islands, Madeira added five new cases, half of those registered on Thursday, to an accumulated of 272, approaching the record of the Azores, which has 294, already counting the three added this Friday.
In the “Pearl of the Atlantic” there is no record of fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic, while the “Misty Islands” have remained without deaths associated with covid-19 since May 16, when the fifteenth victim of the pandemic.
The pandemic continues to affect women 45,762 more than men 38166, but it is equally deadly in both sexes: 1,032 deaths of men and 1,030 deaths of women.
By age group, Friday’s figures confirm the tragic tendency to remove the elderly from the country. With nine more fatalities in the age group over 80, now there are 1,386 (607 men and 779 women) among the oldest in the country, 67.2% of the national total.
With 403 fatalities (247 men and 156 women), the age group 70-79 years accounts for 19.5% of fatalities, while the immediately preceding one, which lost a woman in the last 25 hours, represents the 8.7% of the total. and deaths (118 men and 61 women, for a total of 179 lives lost).
Regarding the cases, the age groups between 20 and 49 years concentrate almost 50% of the cases, with more than 13 thousand households and a percentage value around 16% of the total, but representing less than 1.55 of the total. total deaths (31, 16 men and 15 women).
The next group, from 50 to 59 years old, accounts for 14.5% of all cases and 3% of all deaths (44 men and 19 women, for a cumulative of 63). Among people older than 60 and younger than 70, the percentages of deaths and cases are similar (9% and 8%) respectively, while in those 70-79 years, which represents 8% of all cases, deaths are 19% of the total.
In the elderly, 67% of the deaths of the national total of deaths are taken from the life of only 9% of all cases.
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