Health

[ad_1] The municipality of Viseu has had more than one hundred new cases of Covid-19 since last Wednesday (November 4). According to the latest data from Civil Protection, the district capital has 740 people infected since the pandemic began in March. Between November 2 and 9, the district had another …

[ad_1] The epidemiological data provided by the General Directorate of Health (DGS) are of low quality, concludes a study by the Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services (Cintesis) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. “The possible consequences are making suboptimal decisions or even not …

[ad_1] In times of pandemic, the measures are exceptional. The government has tried to create solutions for everything that is needed, be it in terms of health, the economy and even education. One of the measures at the level of education is the distribution, this month, of 100,000 computers with …

[ad_1] The general director of Health, Graça Freitas, was excited this afternoon with the provisional results of Phase 3 of the clinical trials of the vaccine for covid-19 developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. “If it turns out that its effectiveness is around 90%, it will be one of the best …

[ad_1] If intensive care units reach their maximum capacity, if beds and ventilators are lacking, which patients should be considered priority? Age should not be the only criterion for admission of patients to intensive care units (ICU), these decisions should be considered by a team and the criteria apply to …

[ad_1] The 34 users and 20 employees of the Centro Comunitario de Refoios, Casa da Caridade Ponte de Lima, were examined today after the confirmation of a case of SARS-CoV-2 infection in an employee, the director said today. Contacted today by the Lusa agency, the director of the institution, Agostinho …

[ad_1] The news of the day is also “good news” for Portugal. After the CEO of the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is developing a vaccine for Covid-19 with the Germans at BioNTech, announced that the most recent test results show a high rate of effectiveness of the vaccine, Graça …

[ad_1] Three men and a 97-year-old woman registered as “pregnant”, a 134-year-old patient, another diagnosed on May 50, 2020, two patients with a negative hospital “stay”, and 19 confirmed cases prior to the first official case diagnosed in Portugal. These are just some of the many problems identified in a …

[ad_1] These are the rules that will guide us until at least November 23. The Government decree that establishes the rules of the state of emergency that begins this Monday has been published, so -among others- it is already possible to know what can and cannot be done every day …

[ad_1] This Monday, Portugal registered 63 more deaths and 4,096 new cases of covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours, according to the daily bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS). The country thus registers a new record of deaths. Of the total, 33 occurred in the North, 22 …