Covid-19: Portugal registers 64 deaths and 4,093 new cases in the last 24 hours. Hospitalizations on the rise again – News



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Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 4,427 deaths (+64) and 294,799 (+4,093) cases of contagion, with 80,838 active, 770 more than on Saturday.

The DGS indicates that, of the 64 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 31 occurred in the North region, 22 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 8 in the Center region, two in Alentejo and one in the Algarve. There are no deaths in the autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores.

Health authorities have been monitoring 80,288 contacts, down 197 compared to yesterday, and 3,259 patients were reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours, a cumulative total of 209,534 since the start of the pandemic.

3,245 patients are hospitalized (90 less than yesterday). In Intensive Care there are 536 people due to covid-19 (plus 7), the highest value ever recorded.

The North continues to be the region of the country that concentrates the highest number of cases and new daily infections, concentrating in the last 24 hours around 61% of new cases of covid-19, followed by Lisbon and Vale do Tejo.

According to the bulletin, the North region today has more than 2,490 infections, totaling 154,690 cases and 2,097 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, 979 new cases of infection have been reported, with 97,684 cases of infection and 1,584 deaths so far.

In the Central region, 444 more cases of infection were registered, with 29,269 and 564 deaths now.

In Alentejo, 84 new cases were registered, with a total of 6,010 and 114 deaths.

The Algarve region has reported 49 new cases of infection today, with a total of 5,269 cases and 49 deaths, since the beginning of the pandemic.

In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 37 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 990 detected infections and 17 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

Madeira registered 10 new cases in the last 24 hours, representing 887 infections and two deaths.

In the bulletin, the General Directorate of Health indicates that on November 16 an update of the data analysis technology system of the National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE) was carried out, updating the accumulated number of confirmed and recovered cases. in this date.

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 130,193 men and 159,488 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.

Today’s bulletin indicates that there are 5,118 confirmed cases of unknown sex that are under investigation, as this data is not automatically released.

Of the total number of fatalities, 2,302 were men and 2,125 women.

The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.

The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,453,074 deaths derived from more than 62.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.



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