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This Monday, Portugal counts another 1949 cases of covid-19, exceeding the 100,000 barrier since the start of the pandemic. In the last 24 hours there were 17 more deaths.
It is a round number, synonymous with a pointed problem. This Monday, Portugal surpassed the barrier of 100,000 cases of covid-19, a third of which in the last 30 days. Between September 19 and today’s date, October 19, the day on which 1,949 more SARS-CoV-2 infections were recorded, 34,684 more cases were added, 34% of the total since the start of the pandemic, which now amounts to up to 101860.
The daily bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS), with data closed at midnight on Sunday, also registered 17 fatalities, bringing to 2,198 the total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, on March 2. The second wave extends to hospitals, which record numbers of inmates treated only at the beginning of the pandemic: with 88 more hospitalized, there are now 1,174 patients in hospital care, 165 of which in intensive care units (ICU), 10 more than on Sunday.
Since April, when a peak of 1302 hospitalized patients was reached (on the 16th), there were not as many people needing hospital treatment. The number of people in the ICU also refers to memories of last April, when, at 30, there were 172 people in serious condition.
Of the 17 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 12 lived in the north of Portugal, two in the center and three in the Lisbon and Vale do Sousa region.
Overall, there are 39,696 active covid-19 cases in Portugal, 966 more than on Sunday, and 55,425 people under surveillance, 574 of which were reported in the last 24 hours.
The second wave brings big numbers and not all are bad: More than 966 people were reported to have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of Portuguese who have set foot against the new coronavirus to 59,996.
The pandemic continues to kill the elderly
Older people continue to be the most affected by mortality from covid-19, with the last 24 hours reaping 12 people older than 80 years (seven men and five women). In the immediately preceding age group, 70 to 79 years, two women and one man died. There are also two deaths of men in the age group 60 to 69 years.
The Northern Region continues to be the most affected by mortality from covid-19, having lost 12 more lives in the last 24 hours, for a total of 971 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The northernmost part of the country, where the pandemic entered, has racked up 987 cases since Sunday, falling below the threshold of 1,000 daily infections for the first time in seven days.
With the country registering less than two thousand cases of covid-19 for the second consecutive day, which should not be ignored due to the fact that it is the hangover of the weekend, when it seems that there is normally less data entered in the system , the Central Region added more. 133 positives, for a cumulative 8347. The fatalities now amount to 279, after the registration of two more deaths, until midnight on Sunday.
The RLVT, which records the highest accumulation of infections (48,161 since the start of the pandemic), reported 749 more cases in the last 24 hours, during which it recorded three more deaths, for a total of 884 lives taken by SARS-CoV -2 in the capital area, since the pandemic entered Portugal.
In Alentejo, 35 cases were registered for the second consecutive day, for a cumulative number of 2,026 infections, leaving the number of deaths at 27, since Friday, when the last death was recorded in that region.
Further south, the situation is identical, with 22 deaths, the last on Friday, and an increase of 32 cases (four more than on Sunday), for a total of 2331.
On the islands, there are no deaths in Madeira, while the Azores have registered no fatalities since May 12. As for the cases, there are now 325 in the Azorean archipelago (seven more than on Sunday), while the “Pearl of the Atlantic” added six more infections to the record, for a total of 334.
Since today is Monday, the bulletin also includes infection data by county. Lisbon is the most affected, with 8,241 cases registered since the beginning of the infection, followed by three municipalities in the capital area: Sintra, 6763, Loures, 3891 and Amadora, 3472.
Cascais, 2695, Odivelas, 2676, Oeiras, 2131 and Vila Franca de Xira complete the places most affected by the virus, in the orbit of Greater Lisbon.
There is also another outbreak of the virus, around the second city in the country, with Vila Nova de Gaia accounting for 2,888 cases, four more than the 2,884 in Porto. It follows Matosinhos, with 1929, and Gondomar, 1523, and Valongo, 1160.
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