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This Saturday’s bulletin from the General Directorate of Health registers 2,153 more cases of covid-19 (455 less than in the update on Friday), 13 deaths and 1,853 cured in Portugal. These data are for Friday.
It is the fourth time that the country exceeds two thousand cases a day, although there is a decrease compared to Friday, when a record was registered since the start of the pandemic (2,608).
In addition to this update, there are 13 more deaths to record, bringing the total to 2,162.
The number of hospitalized patients in hospital wards has also decreased, albeit by only one person, and now stands at 1,014. The maximum that Portugal had was on April 16, when 1,302 people were hospitalized.
On the contrary, in the Intensive Care Units there are four more beds occupied, which brings the total to 148 seriously ill patients, the highest figure since May 2, when there were 150 patients. The maximum, however, also dates from April: on the 7th, there were 271 people hospitalized in these units.
There are currently 37,974 active cases in the country (287 more), to which are added more than 52,000 contacts under surveillance by the health authorities.
NORTH HAS MORE THAN HALF THE CASES
The figures confirm that the virus has spread faster in the North for several days: 1,124 new cases in the last 24 hours (52.2%). In Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, another 781 infections (36.2%) were identified. In the Center, Alentejo and Algarve, there were 149, 42 and 47 new cases, respectively. On the islands, the Azores make the biggest jump of the month (7), while Madeira adds three more new cases.
In total, since the start of the pandemic in March, confirmed cases are distributed as follows:
North: 38,281 (+1,124 cases)
Lisbon and Tagus Valley: 47.027 (+781)
Center: 7.983 (+149)
Alentejo: 1,956 (+42)
Algarve: 2,171 (+47)
Azores: 317 (+7)
Madeira: 320 (+3)
The bulletin of the Directorate General of Health allows, in addition to realizing that there were more women (53,433) who contracted the infection than men (44,622), to monitor the age groups in which the deaths occurred.
Of the 13 reported, seven women and six men, one was in the 50-year age group. There was also one of the fatalities who was between 60 and 69 years old, four in their 70s and seven people over 80.
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