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This Friday, Portugal registers 75 more deaths and 4,336 infected by covid-19, reports the situation report of the General Directorate of Health.
In total, the country now has 366,952 confirmed cases and 5,977 deaths.
One of the 75 fatalities is between 10 and 19 years old and is a man. It is the second fatality of covid-19 in this age group in Portugal.
The epidemiological bulletin of the DGS reveals that 3,061 people are hospitalized, 81 less than on Thursday, of which 484 are in intensive care, 10 less.
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Published by Directorate General of Health on Friday, December 18, 2020
Health authorities have 77,432 contacts under surveillance, 981 more than on Thursday.
The bulletin also reveals that 3,662 cases were reported to have been recovered.
Since the start of the epidemic in Portugal in March, 290,690 people have recovered.
Regarding the 75 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, the bulletin reveals that 31 occurred in the North region, 27 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 12 in the Center, four in Alentejo and one in the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
According to the DGS bulletin, the North region registered the highest number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the last 24 hours (2,001), representing 46.1 percent of the total.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the North has recorded 191,058 cases and 2,830 deaths.
In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, 1,360 new infections have been reported, with 118,576 cases and 2,062 deaths so far.
In the Central region, 674 more cases were registered, with a total of 39,552 infections and 835 deaths.
In Alentejo, 195 more cases were reported, totaling 8,606 infections and 160 deaths since the epidemic began in Portugal.
The Algarve region today reported 67 new cases, with a total of 6,458 infections and 62 deaths.
Madeira registered 18 new cases. Since March, this autonomous community has recorded 1,172 infections and seven deaths.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 21 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, totaling 1,530 detected infections and 21 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 164,879 men and 201,941 women in Portugal, according to DGS data, according to which there are 132 cases of unknown sex, which are under investigation, since these data are not provided automatically.
Of the total deaths, 3,112 were men and 2,865 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years old, followed by people between 70 and 79 years old.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,662,792 deaths derived from more than 74.8 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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