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Portugal registered another 82 deaths and 4,720 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) released this Wednesday. The country thus exceeds 5,800 deaths, which represents a total of 5,815 deaths. The total number of infections increased to 358,296.
The epidemiological bulletin of the DGS reveals that 3,181 people are hospitalized, 25 less than on Tuesday, of which 486 are in intensive care, 20 less.
Health authorities have 74,290 contacts under surveillance, 282 less than on Tuesday.
The bulletin also reveals that 3,681 cases were recovered.
Since the start of the epidemic in Portugal in March, 283,719 people have recovered.
Of the 82 deaths in the last 24 hours, 35 occurred in the North, 30 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 14 in the Center, two in the Alentejo and one in the Algarve.
According to the DGS bulletin, the North region registered the highest number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the last 24 hours (2,182), totaling 187,065 cases and 2,759 deaths since March.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, 1,375 new cases have been reported, with 115,928 cases of infection and 2,007 deaths so far.
In the Central region there were 840 more cases, a total of 38,147 and 808 deaths.
In Alentejo, 177 more cases were reported, totaling 8,242 infections and 153 deaths since the epidemic began in Portugal.
The Algarve region has reported 94 new cases, with a total of 6,318 infections and 62 deaths.
Madeira registered 16 new cases. Since March, the autonomous region has recorded 1,119 infections and six deaths.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 36 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, totaling 1,477 detected infections and 20 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 161,009 men and 197,157 women in Portugal, according to DGS data, according to which there are 130 cases of unknown sex, which are under investigation, since these data are not provided automatically.
Of the total deaths, 3,037 were men and 2,778 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age, followed by people between 70 and 79 years of age.
The country is in a state of emergency from November 9 to December 23, a period during which there is a mandatory curfew in counties with the highest risk of contagion.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,636,687 deaths derived from more than 73.4 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
