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The Government updated this Thursday the map of municipalities considered to be of high risk of transmission of covid-19 in Portugal, continuing to use the criterion of municipalities that have more than 240 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days (criterion used by the Center European Disease Control), this time establishing different criteria.
One hundred and nine municipalities in mainland Portugal remain on the lists of municipalities with extreme or very high risk of infection by the new coronarivus, six less than at the beginning of the month.
According to the list of risk levels released today by the Government, after the Council of Ministers in which the measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic for Christmas and New Year were evaluated and adjusted, there are already 30 municipalities at extreme risk contagion, five less than on December 2 and 79 at very high risk, one more than at the beginning of December.
The number of municipalities considered high risk remains unchanged, 92, while the moderate risk municipalities are now 77, four more than at the beginning of the month.
Map updated by the Government with the level of risk by municipality
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The Lisbon Metropolitan Area, which comprises 18 municipalities, now has five very high-level municipalities: Almada, Barreiro, Lisbon, Moita and Montijo.
Fifteen days ago, Almada, Barreiro and Lisbon were already at this level, but Moita and Montijo went from high to very high risk.
At the high level are 15 counties, with Loures falling from the very high level in the last two weeks. They are Alcochete, Amadora, Cascais, Loures, Mafra, Odivelas, Oeiras, Palmela, Seixal, Sesimbra, Setúbal, Sintra and Vila Franca de Xira.
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In the Porto Metropolitan Area, for the first time since the beginning of the division by risk levels, a municipality left the highest risk levels: Vale de Cambra, which for 15 days was considered a county with a very high risk of contagion, went to the high risk level.
At the extreme risk level, there are now only four counties, half of which were on Dec. 2. Oliveira de Azeméis went from very high risk to extreme and Póvoa de Varzim, Trofa and Vila do Conde remain at the same level.
The remaining 12 municipalities of the Porto Metropolitan Area are at a very high risk level: Arouca, Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Paredes, Porto, Santa Maria da Feira, Santo Tirso, São João da Madeira, Valongo and Vila Nova of Gaia.
Espinho, Paredes, Santa Maria de Feira, Santo Tirso, São João da Madeira were the counties that went from extreme to very high risk in the last two weeks.
