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To date, Portugal represents 62 more deaths related to Covid-19 and 3,817 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
The DGS epidemiological situation bulletin indicates that of the 62 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 31 occurred in the North region, 17 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 11 in the Center region, and 3 in Alentejo.
Algarve, the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Autonomous Region of the Azores do not register deaths.
Regarding the number of new cases, the northern region also registered the highest national increase with 2,263 cases of infection, followed by the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley with 736, the Center region with 290, the Algarve with 57 and the Alentejo with 41.
Madeira has 9 new cases of infection. Azores has 21 new confirmed cases.
Since Monday, 91 more people have been admitted to the infirmary, with 2,742 admissions now. There are 9 fewer people in intensive care units, where 382 people are.
The DGS also says that health authorities have 90,063 contacts under surveillance, down from 25 compared to Monday, and that 4,795 patients were reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours, out of a total of 106,878 since the start of the pandemic.
The North region continues to be the one that registers the most new cases: 2,663 in the last 24 hours, totaling 91,212 and totaling 1,370 deaths since the start of the pandemic, in March.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, an additional 736 new infection cases were reported, now representing 70,751 cases and 1,162 deaths.
In the Central region, 290 more cases of contagion were registered, representing a total of 17,016 cases and 372 deaths.
In Alentejo, 41 new cases of covid-19 were registered, totaling 3,641 cases and 69 deaths.
The Algarve region today reported 57 new cases of infection, totaling 3,558 cases and 31 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 21 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 492 detected infections and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Madeira registered nine more cases in the last 24 hours, representing 567 infections and two 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 84,792 men and 102,443 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,552 were men and 1,469 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years old, but in the last 24 hours two people between 40 and 49 years old have died.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,263,890 deaths in more than 50.9 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
