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According to the latest report from the Directorate General of Health (DGS), Portugal has 310 fewer patients hospitalized with covid-19 in hospitals and 30 fewer in intensive care units (ICU). The number of ICU patients has been declining for 11 days since February 13, and the total number of hospitalized patients has also been declining almost consecutively in the last two weeks. Between the beginning of the month and this Monday, the total number of hospitalized patients decreased by approximately 55.5%, from 6775 (February 1) to 3012 (this month 22).
During the meeting of specialists that took place this Monday at Infarmed, Baltazar Nunes, from the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA), explained that, regarding the occupation in intensive care units by patients with covid-19, it is “In a phase of reduction in the number of beds, but still with very high values”. According to the specialist, only at the end of March we should have less than 200 beds occupied in intensive care units, one of the goals that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa proposed to make the country suspect.
In total, Portugal now has 3012 people hospitalized, 597 of them in intensive care units.
The country registered, on Monday, 1032 more cases of infection me 63 deaths associated with covid-19. Since March, the country has tallied 799,106 confirmed cases and 16,086 deaths. The figures, released by the Directorate General of Health (DGS) on Tuesday, refer to the entire day on Monday.
Most of the deaths in Monday’s bulletin were older than 80 years (39 deaths were recorded in this age group). The bulletin also reports 17 deaths in people between 70 and 79 years old; five in people between 60 and 69 years old. A man between 40 and 49 years old and another between 20 and 29 years old died.
There are 4567 additional recovered patients, for a total of 705,976 recoveries since the onset of the pandemic. Therefore, there are 3,598 fewer active cases, which means that 77,044 Portuguese still have the disease. There are 70,767 contacts monitored by the authorities, 8,932 less than in the last report.
The data from the DGS report indicate that, of the total registered deaths, 8,405 are men and 7681 women. Of the 16,086 people who died to date from COVID-19 in Portugal, 10,683 were over 80 years old, which corresponds to 66.4%.
Lisbon and Tagus Valley with 47% of new cases
Most of the new cases were registered in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (493 new infections, corresponding to 47.7%) and in the northern region (186 cases, corresponding to 18%).
THE North it is still the region with the highest number of accumulated cases: there are 324,905 confirmed cases and 5,168 deaths. Lisbon and Tagus Valley It is the second: there are 302,013 infection records and 6,699 deaths from covid-19, and it is the region of the country with the most deaths.
I or Center it has 114,245 infections (146 new) and 2,870 deaths (plus 11). THE Alentejo they totaled 28,224 cases (50 new) and 929 deaths (five more). At Algarve, there are 19,893 cases of infection (61 more) and 332 deaths (two more). THE Madeira registers 6,101 cases of infection (93 new) and 60 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. the Azores registered 3,725 cases (three new) and 28 deaths.
The day before, Portugal registered 61 more deaths from covid-19 and 549 more cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the lowest number since October 6. It should be noted that the number of new cases tends to be lower in the days after weekends, due to fewer tests being performed.
