Intensive care patients have risen for six days and hit a new peak – Observer

Is he fifth worst day in number of new cases Covid-19 in Portugal and the worst in terms of hospitalizations, both in intensive care and in the ward. For six consecutive days, the pressure on intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations has continued to mount. According to the daily bulletin released by DGS, the greatest pressure continues to be registered in the north of the country: 54 out of 100 new cases of contagion are concentrated in that region, followed by the Lisbon region, which concentrates 27% of new cases in the actuality. registered.

Step by Step. The day 5,891 new cases of infection and 79 more deaths were registered in Portugal, the country is approaching the peak it recorded last week, on November 13, when he had 6,653 new cases in a single day. This Wednesday was the fifth worst day in terms of new cases of contagion, only surpassed by the values ​​registered on November 13, 7, 14 and 15. Since then, we still haven’t been able to flatten the curve.

Regarding hospitalizations, the figures continue to rise and this Wednesday they reached new highs, both in nursing and intensive care: 3,051 in nursing and 432 in ICU.

For six consecutive days, the number of admissions to the ICU has continued to increase, although in the last 24 hours only one person has increased. Yesterday, hospital admissions registered a decrease of 12 patients and today they again registered an increase of 23 patients, which also means that a new maximum is registered in this parameter.

For comparison, look at the fact that on November 1, more than two weeks ago, there were 2,122 people hospitalized in the infirmary and 284 in the ICU. Two weeks later, these numbers grew by almost a thousand people in the wards (929, representing a 44% increase) and by another 148 people in the units for the most seriously ill patients, which represents a 52% increase in just over two weeks.

The northern region continues to have a higher percentage of new cases and deaths, with Lisbon doubling yesterday’s figures and the central region reaching a new high.
Of the 5,891 new cases registered today, 3,191 were registered in the northern region of the country (as well as 47 of the 79 deaths). Yesterday, the north had an increase of 2,941 cases, which means that it continues to grow. In practice, 54 out of 100 new cases were registered in the north of the country.

It is followed by the Lisbon region, which registered an increase of 1,637 new cases (out of a total of 5,891) and another 16 of 79 deaths. Almost double the new cases registered yesterday, when the Lisbon region had an increase of 812 new cases of Covid-19. THE The greater Lisbon region thus accounts for 27% of new cases of infection., which means that 27 out of 100 people infected in the last 24 hours come from this part of the country.

The Central region comes next: 791 new cases and 10 more deaths. It is the highest value ever reached in this region: the maximum so far had been 749 new cases, on the 12th of this month. Alentejo, which had skyrocketed yesterday when it registered an increase of 243 new cases, registers 133 more cases today. Five of the 79 deaths occurred in this region of the country.

In the Algarve, there were 119 new cases and 1 death. In Azores and Madeira there were no deaths in the last 24 hours, while in Azores there are 19 more cases since yesterday, and in Madeira only one more.

Of the total of 79 people who died in the last 24 hours of Covid-19, only two men were between 40 and 49 years old. The vast majority of deaths occurred in the elderly over 80 years: 32 men and 30 women.

In the age group 60 to 69 years, 2 more men and 4 women died, and in the next age group (70 to 79 years) 7 more men and 2 women died.