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Matosinhos was the municipality of the Porto Metropolitan Area that registered the highest percentage increase in covid-19 cases in one week, increasing by 25.7%, followed by Porto with 21.6% and Santa Maria da Feira with 20, two%. reveal reports from the General Directorate of Health.
With the record of 497 more cases, Matosinhos reported 2,426 new infections (497 more) this Monday, compared to the 1,929 registered on October 19, while Porto from 2,884 reported cases to 3,508 (plus 624).
Among the 17 municipalities of AMP, Santa Maria da Feira posted the third-largest increase of the week with 179 most active cases reported – rising from 884 to 1,063.
The data refer to the municipalities of AMP that reach up to four digits, according to an analysis carried out by Lusa to the DGS bulletins that discriminate “confirmed cases” by municipality and that were only released on Monday.
Valongo with 192 more infections by the new coronavirus registered a percentage increase of 16.5%, while the Maia 16.2%, with more than 230 cases.
The municipality of Gondomar, which reported 217 new infections to DGS between today and last Monday, registered an increase of 14.2%, Vila do Conde 136 new infections (12.9%) and Vila Nova de Gaia 258 new cases and a 12.3% percentage increase.
With respect to the Aveiro district, Santa Maria da Feira registered more than double the percentage increase in Ovary (70 new cases in the space of a week, or 9% more), a municipality that in the so-called first wave of the pandemic was the first municipality completely closed to the entry and exit of people, through a health fence that lasted from 17 March to April 17.
This Monday Portugal counts another 27 deaths related to covid-19 and 2,447 new confirmed cases of infection, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the DGS.
The North region continues to register the highest number of new daily infections, today with more than 1,633 cases, totaling 51,932, and 1,030 deaths, of which eight in the last 24 hours, since the pandemic began in March.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 43 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.
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