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The Association of Health Centers (ACES) of the Médio Tejo registered 43 new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, with a cumulative total of 1,523 confirmed cases. Today there are 35 new cases registered in Alcanena, 5 in Ourém and 3 in Tomar, municipalities that are fighting against outbreaks in homes. The management of the Social Welfare Center of Minde, Alcanena municipality, confirmed today the existence of a Covid-19 outbreak in the homes of the institution, today with five users in Senior I and 21 users in Senior II and a total of 4 infected employees. The Civil Protection Commission met today in an emergency and the situations are being monitored and the institution is being supported by the different entities, the institution said.
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With 43 cases today, ACES Médio Tejo reached 1,523 accumulated cases. In the 11 counties of the region, Ourém is the municipality with the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 389 (+5), followed by Entroncamento, with 271, Tomar, with 257 (+3), Torres Novas, with 193, Abrantes, with 190, Alcanena, with 99 (+35), Mação, with 49, Vila Nova da Barquinha, with 23, Constância, with 23, Sardoal, with 15, and Ferreira do Zêzere with 14 accumulated cases since start of the pandemic.
At ACES Médio Tejo, Ourém has 106 people under active surveillance, followed by Abrantes (92), Tomar (84), Alcanena (65), Torres Novas (60), Entroncamento (47), Sardoal (39), Constância (26) , Vila Nova da Barquinha (24), Mação (9) and Ferreira do Zêzere (6).
This ACES records a cumulative total of 1523 infected (+43), 705 recovered (-), 686 people on active surveillance (-128) and 23 deaths (data not updated by ACES).
ACES PIS with 21 active cases in Sertã and five in Vila de Rei
In ACES in Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), Sertã has this Sunday an accumulated of 66 infected people, of which 42 have already recovered from the disease, according to ACES PIS. This Sunday, Sertã presents a cumulative total of 66 confirmed cases, of which 21 are active and 112 are under active surveillance.
Vila de Rei, for its part, has had 6 cases of contagion since the start of the pandemic, five of them active and 5 people under surveillance, ACES PIS reported this Saturday. Three of the active positive cases reported in employees of the Vila de Rei Continuous Care Unit led to the performance of some 140 tests on all users and employees, with no signs of positive cases in users of the institution.
Middle Tagus region with a total of 1592 confirmed cases in the 13 municipalities
With about 250 thousand inhabitants, the 13 municipalities of the Middle Tagus add a total of 1592 cases (+43) confirmed of contagion by the new coronavirus (1523 in ACES Médio Tejo and 69 in ACES Pinhal Interior Sul – 63 in Sertã and 6 in Vila de Rei), 748 people recovered (705 in ACES Médio Tejo, 42 in Sertã and 1 in Vila de Rei (ACES PIS) and 23 deaths.
ACES Médio Tejo covers the territorial area of 11 municipalities with approximately 235 thousand users, and covers the health units of Abrantes, Alcanena, Constância, Entroncamento, Ferreira do Zêzere, Mação, Ourém, Sardoal, Tomar, Torres Novas and Vila nova da Barquinha , in a territorial area of 2,706.10 square kilometers.
The municipalities of Sertã and Vila de Rei are part of the Intermunicipal Community (CIM) of the Middle Tagus in the political-administrative division, but in terms of health, they are linked to ACES do Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), which also covers the municipalities of Proença-a- Nova and Oleiros, in a total of about 30 thousand users.
Ponte de Sor has 38 active cases (+7), Gavião with 6 active cases
In Alto Alentejo, Ponte de Sor today presents 7 new covid-19 situations and has accumulated a total of 64 positive cases since the start of the pandemic. At least five of the cases refer to people who do not reside in the municipality and who have not updated their tax residence. The municipality only mentions the occurrence of 59 cases, of which 38 are active. Three classes were isolated at the Ponte de Sor and Montargil schools last week.
Gavião, in turn, accumulates a total of 15 cases, having registered five new infections at the end of October, four of which with citizens residing in the parish of Comenda and one with a firefighter resident in Gavião, these cases are still active. These five cases were joined by another contagion on Thursday, with nine people recovered from the disease and six active cases in the municipality.
Lezíria region with 23 new cases and 2 deaths in the last 24 hours
Lezíria do Tejo has today a cumulative total of 2389 patients (+23), of which 901 cases in the municipality of Santarém, according to data from the Regional Network. Chamusca has a total of 79 confirmed cases, including four deaths, and Golegã records 44 infections. The Lezíria region accumulates 60 deaths (+2), 26 of which in Santarém, and 1,570 people recovered from the disease (+27).
Santarém district with a total of 3,912 cases, 2,275 recovered and 83 deaths
The Santarém district accumulates a total of 3,912 cases of disease (2,389 in Lezíria do Tejo and 1,523 in ACES Médio Tejo) and a total of 83 deaths (60 in Lezíria and 23 in ACES Médio Tejo). Lezíria do Tejo has a total of 1,570 recovered patients and ACES Médio Tejo has 705, which gives a total of 2,275 recovered persons.
Portugal with another 48 deaths and 5,784 cases of contagion
Portugal today counts another 48 deaths related to covid-19 and 5,784 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 2,896 deaths and 179,324 cases of infection, with 76,647 active cases, 3,702 more than on Saturday. The DGS indicates that of the 48 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 27 occurred in the northern region, 14 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, four in the Center region, two in Alentejo and one in the Algarve.
Regarding hospital admissions, the epidemiological bulletin reveals that 2,522 people are hospitalized (102 more than on Saturday) and of these 378, plus 12 patients, are in intensive care. The DGS also says that health authorities have 90,506 contacts under surveillance, 844 less than in relation to Saturday, and that 2,034 more patients were recovered in the last 24 hours, out of a total of 99,781 since the start of the pandemic.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years. The new coronavirus has already infected at least 81,282 men and 98,042 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,485 were men and 1,411 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 1.2 million deaths in more than 49.3 million cases of infection worldwide, according to the latest assessment by the French agency AFP.
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