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This Friday, Portugal registers another 2,899 cases and 31 deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the situation report released by the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
This Friday’s data brings the death toll to 2,276, a total of 112,440 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Since April 24, the day on which 34 deaths were registered, the number of deaths from the new coronavirus in Portugal has not been so high.
This Friday, hospital admissions reached a new record since the start of the pandemic, with the record of another 53 people hospitalized in the last 24 hours for a total of 1,418. On Thursday, the data showed the existence of 1,365 cases, exceeding the maximum value registered in April of 1,302.
Epidemiological Bulletin of October 23, 2020 from TVI24 on Scribd
According to the epidemiological bulletin, of the 31 deaths registered, 14 occurred in the North, nine in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, five in the Center, two in Alentejo and one in the Algarve.
In the last 24 hours, 1,349 patients were recovered, totaling 65,880 since the start of the pandemic.
The North region continues to register the highest number of new daily infections, registering more than 1,516 cases today, totaling 46,391 and 1,001 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, 918 more cases of infection were reported, and the region accounted for 51,313 cases and 913 deaths.
In the Central region, 364 new cases were registered, representing 9,388 infections and 290 deaths.
In Alentejo, 53 new cases of infection were registered, for a total of 2,272 with a total of 33 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The Algarve region today reported 38 more cases of infection, for a total of 2,373 cases and 24 deaths.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, two more cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 334 detected infections and 15 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Madeira registered eight new cases in the last 24 hours, representing 369 infections, with no deaths to date.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years.
In total, the new coronavirus has already affected at least 51,125 men and 61,315 women in Portugal, according to declared cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,154 were men and 1,122 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 41.3 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the Americas are now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
