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Sintra (+48), Ovar (+40), Loures (+33) and Lisbon (+24) are the municipalities that, in the evolution of the daily bulletin of the General Directorate of Health, recorded the greatest increase in cases between Friday and saturday
Portugal now has 27 406 confirmed coronavirus cases, an increase of 138 in 24 hours, and in the distribution by municipality, according to the data in the clinical notifications in the SINAVE system, only 88% of the total number of cases is counted. Thus, there is a lag relative to the daily increase, with 344 other cases included in this list from Friday to Saturday.
Sintra now has 745 cases, Ovar has 614, Loures comes with 497 and Lisbon has 1,724, being the municipality with the highest number of cases on this list.. In total, in addition to the capital, there are five others with numbers greater than a thousand: Vila Nova de Gaia (1448, +3 than the previous day), Porto (1300, + 5), Matosinhos (1197, +5), Braga ( 1149, +3) and Gondomar (1048, +2).
Salvador Malheiro, the mayor of Ovar, a municipality that was under siege, always maintained that the number of cases that had been registered locally was greater than the number indicated in the bulletin.
“For the purposes of the action, for epidemiological surveillance, for intervention purposes, the county data is more precise and precise than ours. What we do in the bulletin is that, as the municipalities provide us with information, we are also refining ours and the data that appear in the national bulletin by municipality are improving day by day, “said the general director of Health, Graça Freitas, at the press conference of the 3rd.
Lisbon region with more cases in one day
At the national level, although the North region continues to be the one with the highest number of cases (15854. 45 more than on Friday), the greatest increase in the last 24 hours was recorded in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region (7166 , plus 73).
In the case of the dead, 12 more were registered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 1,126. In the North there are now six more (645), in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo five more (238) and in the Center one more (215). There are 17 more cases in this region (for a total of 3,581).
In Alentejo there are three more new cases, for 235, but only one remains. In the Algarve (345 cases, 13 deaths), Azores (135 cases, 14 deaths) and Madeira (90 cases, none died), the numbers are the same as those in Friday’s epidemiological bulletin.
