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Newsletter of this Tuesday of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) registers 85 deaths (11 more than Monday) and 3,919 new cases of covid-19 in Portugal: the lowest number of new infections in the 24 hours of the last 13 days, since 3,817 cases were registered on November 10.
The document also reports on more 7,406 recovered and we currently have in the territory 80,432 active cases identified, after subtracting 3572 cases in the last 24 hours.
The 85 deaths are the second highest daily number since the start of the pandemic in March, only surpassed by 91 deaths on November 16. Portugal today exceeds 4000 deaths from covid-19 (4056), there are 268,721 confirmed infections and 184,233 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.
Regarding hospitalizations, the balance puts 34 more hospitalized patients in the country’s hospitals, the total is now 3,275 (highest pandemic value), of which 506 are in the Intensive Care Units (ICU). Portugal had not yet exceeded five hundred in the UCI, where eight more patients were admitted in the last 24 hours.
North with 58% of cases, Alentejo is the other region with more cases than on Monday
The North it is still the territory that concentrates the most new cases nationwide: 2,284, that is, 58.3% of the national total. This has been the region with the most cases for 48 days; the last time this did not happen was on October 7 (in this case, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo recorded the most new infections).
There is a slight increase compared to Monday (2258) in the number of cases in the North, but the Alentejo also rose, from 68 to 83, this Tuesday representing 2.1% of the national total. Lisbon and the Tagus Valley register 1018 new infected (26% of the national total), Center 446 (11.4%), Algarve 65 (1.7%), Azores 18 (0.5%) and Madeira five cases (0.1%).
Most of the deaths, 50, occurred in the north (58.8%), followed by Lisbon and the Tagus valley with 20, the center with 12 and the Alentejo with another three.
In the last 24 hours, health authorities have identified 627 cases of infection in children and young people up to 19 years of age (16%). As for the elderly population, the most vulnerable and punished in this covid-19 pandemic, 874 new cases were added (22.3%). In other words, more than a fifth of those newly infected are people over 60 years of age. The remaining photograph of the country, that is, distributing the cases by age groups, looks like this:
0-9 years: 13413 (+251)
10-19 years: 23468 (+376)
20-29 years: 43279 (+517)
30-39 years: 41584 (+608)
40-49 years: 45135 (+703)
50-59 years: 39503 (+590)
60-69 years: 25572 (+371)
70-79 years: 16378 (+256)
+80 years: 20389 (+247)
The vast majority of deaths in the last 24 hours occurred in patients older than 80 years, and between the ages of 60 and 79, 22 people died. There was another death of a patient in his 50s. The fatalities, the total (+ new deaths in 24 hours), are distributed as follows by age group:
0-9 years: 1
10-19 years: 0
20-29 years: 4
30-39 years: 6
40-49 years: 37
50-59 years: 119 (+1)
60-69 years: 341 (+10)
70-79 years: 807 (+12)
+80 years: 2741 (+62)
