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In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered 3,817 new covid-19 infections. Another 62 people died, according to the daily bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS).
Portugal now has a total of 187,237 confirmed cases since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, as well as 3,021 deaths. This means that this Tuesday the barrier of three thousand fatalities was exceeded.
Of the total deaths, 31 occurred in the north, 17 in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, 11 in the center and three in the Alentejo.
Since Monday, 91 more patients have been admitted to the ward, with 2,742 admissions now, in contrast, there are less nine people in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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Portugal now has 77,338 active cases, 1,040 fewer than Monday, and 4,795 more patients were reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours, out of a total of 106,878 since the pandemic began.
DGS also says that health authorities have 90,063 contacts under surveillance, down 25 compared to Monday.
The North region continues to be the one that registers the most new cases: 2,663 in the last 24 hours, totaling 91,212 and totaling 1,370 deaths since the start of the pandemic, in March.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, an additional 736 new infection cases were reported, now representing 70,751 cases and 1,162 deaths.
In the Central region, 290 more cases of contagion were registered, representing a total of 17,016 cases and 372 deaths.
In Alentejo, 41 new cases of covid-19 were registered, totaling 3,641 cases and 69 deaths.
The Algarve region today reported 57 new cases of infection, totaling 3,558 cases and 31 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 21 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 492 detected infections and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Madeira registered nine more cases in the last 24 hours, representing 567 infections and two deaths.
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 84,792 men and 102,443 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,552 were men and 1,469 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years old, but in the last 24 hours two people between 40 and 49 years old have died.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,263,890 deaths in more than 50.9 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.
