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This Tuesday’s bulletin from the Directorate General of Health records another 1,876 cases of covid-19, 15 deaths and 1,932 cured in Portugal (data from Monday). In total, there are now 103,736 confirmed cases, 2,213 deaths, and 61,898 recovered.
The number of active cases is 39,625, 71 less than on Monday, because the number of recovered patients is greater than the sum of newly infected and deceased. This has not happened since August 15 (-16).
The confirmed infections in the last 24 hours are less than Monday (73 people less) and, for the third day in a row, they are below 2,000 cases, which occurred between Wednesday and Saturday. The growth rate of new cases compared to the previous day is 1.84%.
There are two fewer deaths (15) than the previous day (17), but it is still slightly above the average of the last seven days (14.7) and well above that of the last 30 days (10).
The number of people recovered is the highest in almost five months, with 9,844 cured persons registered on May 24, the result of a large-scale statistical update by the DGS. However, by Saturday a close figure had already been registered (1,853). The growth rate in 24 hours is 3.22%.
There are 63 more people hospitalized in Portuguese hospitals, bringing the total to 1,237. You have to go back to April 19 to see a higher figure: 1,243 hospitalized patients. Portugal has 65 hospitalizations at the peak of the pandemic, which took place in this segment on April 16, when there were 1,302 hospitalized patients.
Regarding the Intensive Care Units, there are 11 more occupied beds, which becomes the largest increase since April 16, when 21 patients were admitted to the ICU. In the middle, on October 8, there was a value equal to this Tuesday: 11.
The North Region represents 59% of daily cases
With regard to the country’s photograph of the new cases of infection identified, the daily distribution was as follows:
North: 1,106 new cases || 41,542 total cases
Lisbon and Tagus Valley: 435 || 48,596
Center: 199 || 8,546
Alentejo: 87 || 2,113
Algarve: 35 || 2,266
Azores: 3 || 328
Madeira: 11 || 3. 4. 5
In terms of fatalities since March, the beginning of the pandemic, the North leads with 976 (+5 in the last 24 hours), followed by Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (890, +6), Center (281, +2), Alentejo (29, +2) and Algarve (22). On the islands, deaths were recorded only in the Azores (15).
The DGS bulletin also allows you to observe how many cases of infection and how many deaths occurred by age group. For example, 66.7% of deaths were due to illness older than 80 years. As for daily cases, 22% refer to new patients over 60 years of age (413 in total). Already 12.8% of new cases affect children and young people up to 19 years of age, while the profile of the active population (20-59 years) translates into 65.6% of new daily cases, that is, 1,230 new cases. infection. So the picture looks like this:
0-9 years: 4,387 cases (+68) — 1 death
10-19 years: 6,716 (+164) — 0
20-29 years: 17.303 (+338) — 2
30-39 years: 16,881 (+305) — 5
40-49 years: 16,999 (+319) — 25
50-59 years: 14946 (+268) — 67
60-69 years: 10,140 (+173) — 193 (+1)
70-79 years: 6,739 (+118) — 437 (+4)
+80 years: 9,467 (+122) — 1,483 (+10)
unknown: 158 cases
