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The incidence of covid-19 in Portuguese territory continues to decline, while the rate of transmissibility of the disease has increased slightly in recent days, according to the General Directorate of Health Portugal began deflation last Monday.
The country remains in the green zone of the risk matrix. The squares of the matrix that we put at the beginning of this article dictate the advance (or retreat) of the different phases of deflation and combine the incidence of the virus (the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) with the transmissibility index, Rt (cases of infection that give rise to a person with covid-19). If the indicators remain in the green area, deflation can continue to advance, but if the country reaches the yellow or red zone, deflation can be stopped or reversed.
The transmissibility index (Rt) is set at 0.86, but if only the continental territory is considered, this indicator drops to 0.84. The incidence of 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants also follows this trend: the national average is 87.2 new cases, with the continent registering 75.7 new infections.
Comparing these data, it is concluded that the national Rt had a slight increase from 0.83 to 0.86 between last Sunday and this Thursday. On the contrary, the incidence of the disease was reduced from 96 cases to 87.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Portugal registered 11 more deaths and 568 confirmed cases of covid-19. In total, 16,754 deaths and 816,623 confirmed infections have been registered since March. The data, referring to this Thursday, were revealed this Friday by DGS.
Regarding hospitalizations, there are 39 fewer hospitalized patients than in the previous balance and five fewer in intensive care. A) Yes, The country has 789 hospitalized patients, 182 of whom are in intensive care.
Most of the deaths in the last update were over 80 years old (four deaths were recorded in this age group) and between 70 and 79 years old (two deaths). Four deaths were also recorded in people between 60 and 69 years old and a man who was between 40 and 49 years old. The data from the DGS report indicate that, of the total registered deaths, 8,792 are men and 7,962 are women. Of the 16,754 people who died to date from covid-19 in Portugal, 11,051 were over 80 years old, which corresponds to 65.9%.
Lisbon and Tagus Valley with 39% of cases
Another 1,571 recovered cases have yet to be reported, for a total of 766,170 recoveries since the start of the pandemic. Thus, there are less 1014 active cases, which means that 33,699 Portuguese still suffer from the disease (the lowest number since December 31). There are 14,915 contacts monitored by the authorities, 352 less than on the balance sheet.
Most of the new cases were registered in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (223 new infections, corresponding to 39.2%) and in the northern region (146 cases, corresponding to 25.7%). The North continues to be the region with the highest number of accumulated cases: there are 329,203 confirmed cases and 5,287 deaths. Lisbon and the Tagus Valley is the second: there are 309,421 records of infection and 7074 deaths from covid-19, and it is the region of the country with the most deaths.
The Center has 116,544 infections (104 new) and 2,983 deaths (plus four). The Alentejo adds 28,849 cases (21 new) and 966 deaths. In the Algarve, there are 20,379 cases of infection (plus 21) and 351 deaths. Madeira registers 8,292 cases of infection (40 new) and 65 deaths since the start of the pandemic (one more). The Azores registered 3,935 cases and 28 deaths.
Portugal is currently the European Union (EU) country with the lowest incidence rate of covid-19, according to the most recent data published this Thursday by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC).
