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This Sunday’s bulletin from the General Health Directorate registers more than 1,856 cases of covid-19, 19 deaths and 1,081 cured in Portugal. These data are for Saturday.
Despite the breakdown of new infections compared to the last four days, in which it had always been above two thousand, the country is close to the barrier of 100,000 cases since the start of the pandemic: it now has 99,911.
Regarding deaths, all registered in people over 60 years of age, there are 13 men and six women. Despite the nearly 10,000 women infected since the start of the pandemic (54,427 versus 45,484 men), there are more male victims: 1,100 versus 1,081 women.
The number of inpatients in hospital wards increased again, with 72 more beds occupied, bringing the total to 1,086. Since April, there was no such increase. – On the 16th of that month, 102 people entered. It was also that April 16 when hospitals registered the highest occupation caused by covid-19, 1,302 beds.
In the Intensive Care Units there is also a new increase, although less in relative terms: seven more patients hospitalized than on a Saturday, in a total of 155, a growth of 4.7%.
There are currently 38,730 active cases in the country (756 more), of which there are almost 55,000 contacts under surveillance by the health authorities.
More than 60% of the cases are in the North, which has not been seen for months
Just as the number of new infections and hospitalizations is decreasing in the first months of the pandemic in Portugal, the weight of the northern region in these infections also refers to this beginning. The North registered 1,168 new cases, 63% of the total, which is unparalleled in the summer months. Only in May, and before that, we saw such relative weight in this region, which now has almost 40 thousand cases detected (39,449).
On the contrary, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region has a drop in new cases: 385 compared to more than 700 yesterday and which were the rule this week. They correspond to 21% of the total and are added to those of the remaining days for a total of 47,412 since March.
In the rest of the regions, point to the Azores, which only has one new case (yesterday there were seven) and remains the region least affected by the pandemic: 318 in total, 10 less than in Madeira (record of eight cases between the Saturday is Sunday).
In the Center region there were 231 more infections (a total of 8,214), in Alentejo there were 35 (1,991) and in the Algarve there are 28 more patients (2,199 in total).
