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The Association of Health Centers (ACES) of the Médio Tejo registered 40 new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours and two deaths of users of the Centro Social do Pego, in Abrantes. Today’s cases were registered in Torres Novas (+12), Tomar (+10), Constância (+5), Entroncamento (+5), Alcanena (+3), Vila Nova da Barquinha (+2), Sardoal (+ 2) and Mação (+1). In ACES PIS, Sertã has 4 more cases today.
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The Public Health Delegate of ACES Médio Tejo, Maria dos Anjos Esperança, reported the evolution of the outbreak in the Hogar de Pego from 3 to 5 deaths, even with 15 users admitted to the hospital, and commented on the admission of five municipalities of the region in the list the municipalities with the highest risk of contagion and spread of the virus, against their expectations.
In the 11 counties of the region, Ourém is the municipality with the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 483 confirmed infections, followed by Entroncamento, with 297 (+5), Tomar, with 292 (+10), Torres Novas, with 230 (+12), Abrantes, with 206, Alcanena, with 111 (+3), Mação, with 50 (+1), Constância, with 33 (+5), Vila Nova da Barquinha, with 30 (+ 2), Ferreira do Zêzere, with 25, and Sardoal, with 19 accumulated cases (+2).
Currently, ACES Médio Tejo has 685 people under active surveillance (+66). Ourém has 160 citizens in this condition, followed by Tomar (122), Abrantes (105), Entroncamento (80), Torres Novas (67), Alcanena (37), Sardoal and Mação (28), Vila Nova da Barquinha (24) , Constância (20) and Ferreira do Zêzere (14).
This ACES records a cumulative total of 1776 infected people (+40), 739 recovered (-), 685 people under active surveillance (+66) and 28 deaths (+ 2 deaths confirmed today in Abrantes but with the complete data not yet updated by ACES).
ACES PIS with 28 active cases in Sertã and 6 in Vila de Rei
At ACES in Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), Sertã today has a cumulative total of 73 infected people (+4), of which 45 have already recovered from the disease, according to ACES PIS. Sertã had a cumulative total of 74 confirmed cases, of which 28 were active cases and 111 were under active surveillance.
Vila de Rei, meanwhile, has had 7 cases of contagion (-) since the beginning of the pandemic, 5 of which are still active, reported ACES PIS. This Friday there were 5 people on active surveillance.
Middle Tagus region with a total of 1856 confirmed cases in the 13 municipalities
With around 250 thousand inhabitants, the 13 municipalities of the Middle Tagus add a total of 1856 cases (+44) confirmed of contagion by the new coronavirus (1776 in ACES Médio Tejo and 80 in ACES Pinhal Interior Sul – 73 in Sertã and 7 in Vila de Rei), 786 people recovered (739 in ACES Médio Tejo, 45 in Sertã and 2 in Vila de Rei (ACES PIS) and 28 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) that also covers the municipalities of Proença-a- Nova and Oleiros, in a total of about 30 thousand users.
Ponte de Sor has 30 active cases, Gavião with 8 active cases
In Alto Alentejo, Ponte de Sor accumulates today a total of 70 positive cases accumulated since the beginning 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 65 cases, of which 30 are active and one deceased. Ponte de Sor became part of the list of municipalities with a high risk of transmission of covid-19, subject to more restrictive measures such as curfew, starting next Monday, the Government announced today.
Gavião, in turn, has a cumulative total of 18 covid cases, with 10 people now recovered from the disease. There are eight active cases in the county.
Lezíria region with 93 cases, 132 recovered and 2 deaths in 24 hours
Lezíria do Tejo presents 93 new cases in the last 24 hours and a cumulative total of 2733 patients, of which 1019 cases in the municipality of Santarém, according to data from the Regional Network. Today, Chamusca has a total of 92 confirmed cases (+4), including four deaths, and Golegã records 46 infections (+1). The Lezíria region has 71 deaths (+2), 29 of which in Santarém, and 1,883 people recovered from the disease (+132).
Santarém district with a total of 4,549 cases, 2,490 recovered and 95 deaths
The Santarém district accumulates a total of 4,549 cases of disease (2,733 in Lezíria do Tejo and 1,776 in ACES Médio Tejo) and a total of 99 deaths (71 in Lezíria and 28 in ACES Médio Tejo). Lezíria do Tejo has a total of 1883 recovered patients and ACES Médio Tejo has 739, which gives a total of 2622 recovered people.
Portugal with 6,653 cases, new daily maximum
Portugal has today reached a new maximum of daily cases of covid-19 by registering another 6,653 in the last 24 hours and registering 69 deaths, according to the bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS). Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 3,250 deaths and 204,664 cases of infection by the new coronavirus, with 84,032 active cases today, 2,891 more than on Thursday.
Portugal today registered the highest number of daily cases of covid-19, after this maximum was reached on November 7, when 6,640 infections were registered. According to the bulletin, 61% of new cases are located in the North region, which registered 4,061 more infections in the last 24 hours, followed by Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, with 1,733 new cases.
The DGS indicates that of the 69 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 32 occurred in the northern region, 27 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, eight in the Center region, one in Alentejo and another in the Algarve. Regarding hospital admissions, the epidemiological bulletin reveals that 2,799 people are hospitalized (five more than on Thursday) and of these 388, five more are in intensive care.
The DGS also says that health authorities have 90,425 contacts under surveillance, 750 more than on Saturday, and that 3,693 patients have been recovered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 117,382 since the start of the pandemic in March.
The North is the region that registers the most new cases, with 4,061 reported in the last 24 hours, totaling 101,685 cases of infection and 1,491 deaths since the start of the pandemic. In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, an additional 1,733 new infection cases were reported, now accounting for 75,014 cases and 1,233 deaths.
In the Central region there were 626 more cases of infection, with 19,134 and 403 deaths now. In Alentejo, 114 new cases of covid-19 were registered, with a total of 3,855 and 74 deaths. The Algarve region today reported 86 more cases of infection, totaling 3,801 cases and 32 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 19 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 561 detected infections and 15 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Madeira registered 14 cases in the last 24 hours, representing 614 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 92,678 men and 111,986 women in Portugal, according to reported cases. Of the total deaths, 1,662 were men and 1,588 women. The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,294,539 deaths in more than 52.7 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP. The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
c / LUSA
