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The Grouping of Health Centers (ACES) of the Middle Tagus registered 18 new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Tomar and Torres Novas have eight new cases each, and Sardoal and Constância present a new case of covid-19.
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An outbreak of contagion with the new coronavirus registers 15 positive cases in a home in the parish of Carvalhal, municipality of Abrantes, a private structure for the elderly. The result of 15 positives for SARS-CoV-2, among users, workers and owners of the residence, has already led to their “prophylactic isolation,” the mayor of Abrantes, Manuel Jorge Valamatos, told mediotejo.net.
Following the recent outbreaks in homes in Pego and Carvalhal (Abrantes), Ourém and Alcanena, among others, attention has also turned to schools this week. A 3-year-old boy, a student at the Sardoal kindergarten, tested positive for covid-19, a situation that led to the isolation of another 20 children, two educators and two operational assistants. A teacher and two students from the Sertã School Cluster tested positive, forcing the remaining students in the respective classes to have to remain in isolation at home. In Alferrarede (Abrantes), 24 children and two employees of the Social Center are in quarantine, after a four-year-old boy tested positive for covid-19. In Ferreira do Zêzere, a sixth grade student and another twelfth grade student from the Ferreira do Zêzere School Group tested positive for Covid-19 and remain in prophylactic quarantine at home. The information was confirmed today to mediotejo.net by Isabel Saúde, director of the Group. The sixth grade students where the case was detected are taking quarantine at home and taking classes on the digital platform, a situation that will last until the 17th, the official said.
In the 11 municipalities of the region, Ourém is the municipality with the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 400 confirmed infections, followed by Entroncamento, with 278, Tomar, with 267 (+8), Torres Novas, with 215 (+8), Abrantes, with 204, Alcanena, with 101, Mação, with 49, Vila Nova da Barquinha, with 26, Constância, with 24 (+1), Sardoal, with 16 (+1), and Ferreira do Zêzere with 14 accumulated cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Today at ACES Médio Tejo, 642 people are under active surveillance (+75). Ourém has 139 citizens in this condition, followed by Tomar (108), Abrantes (102), Torres Novas (77), Entroncamento (70), Alcanena (64), Vila Nova da Barquinha (28), Sardoal (26) Constância ( 13), Mação (10) and Ferreira do Zêzere (5).
This ACES records a cumulative total of 1,594 infected people (+18), 705 recovered (-), 642 people under active surveillance (+75) and 23 deaths (data not updated by ACES).
ACES PIS with 22 active cases in Sertã and five in Vila de Rei
At ACES in Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), Sertã today has a cumulative total of 66 infected people, of which 44 have already recovered from the disease, according to ACES PIS. Sertã has a cumulative total of 66 confirmed cases, of which 22 are active.
A teacher and two students from the Sertã School Group tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the remaining students in the respective classes to have to be isolated at home. The information was confirmed by the Group Director in statements to mediotejo.net. José Carlos Fernandes said that the students of these classes who are in isolation will be tested this Tuesday 10:
Vila de Rei, for its part, has had 6 cases of contagion since the start of the pandemic, three of which are still active, reported ACES PIS. Three of the active positive cases reported in employees of the Vila de Rei Continuous Care Unit led to the performance of some 140 tests on all users and employees, with no signs of positive cases in users of the institution.
Middle Tagus region with a total of 1666 confirmed cases in the 13 municipalities
With about 250 thousand inhabitants, the 13 municipalities of the Middle Tagus add a total of 1666 cases (+18) confirmed of contagion by the new coronavirus (1594 in ACES Médio Tejo and 72 in ACES Pinhal Interior Sul – 66 in Sertã and 6 in Vila de Rei), 750 people recovered (705 in ACES Médio Tejo, 44 in Sertã and 1 in Vila de Rei (ACES PIS) and 23 deaths.
ACES Médio Tejo covers the territorial area of 11 municipalities with approximately 235 thousand users, and covers the health units of Abrantes, Alcanena, Constância, Entroncamento, Ferreira do Zêzere, Mação, Ourém, Sardoal, Tomar, Torres Novas and Vila nova da Barquinha , in a territorial area of 2,706.10 square kilometers.
The municipalities of Sertã and Vila de Rei are part of the Inter-municipal Community (CIM) of the Middle Tagus in the political-administrative division, but in terms of health, they are linked to ACES do Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), which also covers the municipalities of Proença-a- Nova and Oleiros, in a total of about 30 thousand users.
Ponte de Sor has 33 active cases (-8), Gavião with 6 active cases (+1)
In Alto Alentejo, Ponte de Sor accumulates today a total of 67 positive cases since the start of the pandemic. At least five of the cases refer to people who do not reside in the municipality and who have not updated their tax residence. The municipality only mentions the occurrence of 62 cases, of which 33 are active (-8). Three classes were isolated at the Ponte de Sor and Montargil schools last week.
Gavião, in turn, has another confirmed case and a cumulative total of 16 covid cases (+1), having registered five new infections at the end of October, four of them with citizens residing in the parish of Comenda and one with a firefighter . resident in Gavião. These five cases were joined by another infection on Thursday, with 10 people already recovered from the disease and six active cases in the municipality.
Lezíria region with more than 100 cases, 50 recovered and one death in 24 hours
Lezíria do Tejo presents 100 new cases in the last 24 hours and a cumulative total of 2,562 patients, of which 972 cases in the municipality of Santarém (+48), according to data from the Regional Network. Chamusca has a total of 84 confirmed cases (+2), including four deaths, and Golegã records 45 infections (+1). The Lezíria region has 63 deaths (+2), 26 of which in Santarém, and 1,663 people recovered from the disease (+50).
Santarém district with a total of 4156 cases, 2368 recovered and 86 deaths
The Santarém district has a cumulative total of 4156 disease cases (2562 in Lezíria do Tejo and 1594 in ACES Médio Tejo), and a total of 86 deaths (63 in Lezíria and 23 in ACES Médio Tejo). Lezíria do Tejo has a total of 1,663 recovered patients and ACES Médio Tejo has 705, which gives a total of 2,368 recovered people.
Portugal with 62 more deaths exceeds 3,000 since the pandemic began
The number of deaths related to covid-19 today exceeded 3,000 since the beginning of the pandemic, when 62 more deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS).
The bulletin also indicates that there were 3,817 new covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, totaling 187,237 cases since the start of the pandemic. According to the DGS, Portugal has so far registered a total of 3,021 deaths related to covid-19.
Since Monday, 91 more people have entered the infirmary, with 2,742 admissions now, while there are fewer nine in the intensive care units, where 382 people are. The DGS epidemiological situation bulletin indicates that of the 62 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 31 occurred in the North region, 17 in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, 11 in the Central region and three in Alentejo.
Portugal now has 77,338 active cases, 1,040 fewer than Monday, and 4,795 more patients were reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours, out of a total of 106,878 since the pandemic began. DGS also says that health authorities have 90,063 contacts under surveillance, down 25 compared to Monday.
The North region continues to be the one that registers the most new cases: 2,663 in the last 24 hours, totaling 91,212 and totaling 1,370 deaths since the start of the pandemic, in March. In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, an additional 736 new infection cases were reported, now representing 70,751 cases and 1,162 deaths.
In the Central region, 290 more cases of contagion were registered, representing a total of 17,016 cases and 372 deaths. In Alentejo, 41 new cases of covid-19 were registered, totaling 3,641 cases and 69 deaths. The Algarve region today reported 57 new cases of infection, totaling 3,558 cases and 31 deaths since the start of the pandemic. In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 21 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 492 detected infections and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Madeira registered nine more cases in the last 24 hours, representing 567 infections and two deaths.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years. The new coronavirus has already infected at least 84,792 men and 102,443 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,552 were men and 1,469 women. The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years old, but in the last 24 hours two people between 40 and 49 years old have died.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,263,890 deaths in more than 50.9 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP. The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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