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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has recorded 1,875 deaths and there are now 18,784 cases of active infection.
DGS also advances that in the last 24 hours 177 patients have been recovered, a total of 44,362 people reported as recovered since the start of the pandemic in Portugal.
The number of hospitalized patients increased again, now 478 (plus 21); the number of patients admitted to intensive care units was reduced to 59 (minus two).
There are 36,955 contacts under surveillance, 197 more than on Monday.
The DGS indicates that there were two deaths in the northern region and the other two in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and Algarve regions.
The total number of new cases registered today is the lowest in the last seven days.
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The data also indicates that 478 people with covid-19 are admitted to hospitals (one more compared to Monday), of which 59 (minus two) in intensive care units.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, where the highest number of infections occurs in the country, 227 new cases were reported, representing 33,297 cases of infection and 706 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The northern region now registers 117 more cases, now a total of 23,528, with 859 deaths.
In the Central region, 51 more cases were registered, with 5,330 infections and 254 deaths registered since the beginning of the pandemic.
In Alentejo, 14 more cases of covid-19 have been registered, totaling 1,175 cases and 22 deaths so far.
The Algarve region has reported today 15 more cases of infection, for a total of 1,259 cases and 19 deaths from covid-19.
In the autonomous region of the Azores, a new case was registered in the last 24 hours, totaling 240 infections, 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Madeira does not currently have a case registry, representing 192 infections, with no deaths to date.
In the last 24 hours, 177 patients have been recovered, so 44,362 people have overcome the infection since the start of the pandemic in Portugal.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years.
In total, the new coronavirus has already affected at least 29,377 men and 35,644 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 945 were men and 930 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 929,391 deaths and more than 29.3 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
