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Portugal registered, for the third time since the start of the pandemic, more than a thousand cases of contagion by the new coronavirus daily. In addition to the fact that this Thursday was one of the few days that this happened, it was also the second worst day in terms of new cases. According to the daily bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS), 1,278 cases have been registered since Wednesday, a total of 82,534 since the start of the pandemic. We need to go back to April 10, when our country was still at the peak of the pandemic, to account for such a high number: 1,516 new cases of contagion were registered that day. This Thursday there were also 10 more deaths, making a total of 2,050 deaths related to covid-19.
In the last seven days, Portugal registered two of the highest values in history in terms of new infections and was close to having 1,000 cases a day (on Saturday, with 963 new cases, and this Wednesday, with 944). Before that, Portugal had only passed the threshold of a thousand cases twice, with 1,035 new infections on March 31 and 1,516 on April 10. Hours before the publication of the bulletin, and during a visit to the Braga Hospital, the Secretary of State for Health, António Lacerda Sales, said that Portugal would exceed 1,000 cases this Thursday. “We have to prepare for what lies ahead,” he said.
In the last 24 hours, 37 people were hospitalized due to covid-19, which caused the total number of hospitalizations to increase again (as had already happened this Wednesday) to a value that has not been registered since May. In total, there are 801 people hospitalized, 115 of them in intensive care units (ICU) and 11 were admitted on the last day; almost five months ago, on May 11, there were 805 (and 112 in ICU). Although there were some variations, the total number of internal citizens has been on an increasing trend since the beginning of September.
There are 46,182 people who must be accompanied by the health authorities, 159 more than the day before. In addition, there are now 28,967 active cases of contagion, 788 more than this Wednesday, a figure obtained after subtracting the number of recovered and deceased from the total number of infections. Portugal has never had as many active cases as this Thursday. The DGS bulletin also reveals that 480 cases were recovered in the last 24 hours; In total, there are now 51,517 people who are considered recovered.
Most of Thursday’s new infections affect three areas of the country: 50.2% (or 642 new cases) were in the north, where five of the ten deaths also occurred, and 37.2% (482 new cases) cases)) in the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley, which also represents three of the ten deaths in the last 24 hours. In the Central region, 7% of new cases (101 new) and two deaths were registered.
Looking at the distribution of cases by region, Lisbon and Tagus Valley it continues to be the country with the highest accumulated number of cases in the country; In total, there are 41,707 infection records and 814 deaths from covid-19. THE North it has 30,111 cases and 905 deaths, it is the region with the highest number of deaths. I’m already on it Center 6662 infections and 271 deaths were recorded. THE Alentejo total 1604 cases (nine new) and 25 deaths. In the Algarve there are 1,892 cases of infection (30 in the last 24 hours) and 20 deaths. THE Madeira total 267 cases of infection (six new) and zero deaths. the Azores registered 291 cases (plus four) and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
After the update of infections by region, which takes place this Monday, it was known that, as happened last week, Lisbon was the municipality that registered the highest number of new cases, with 448 in the last week for a total of 6,965 The list of municipalities with the highest number of new infections follows Sintra with 363 more cases (5,804 in total), Loures (265 more, 3,357 more), Odivelas (157 more, 2366 accumulated), Porto (115 new, 1957 in total ) and Vila Nova de Gaia (146, 2421 in total). Almada (143, 1,393 in total), Cascais (141, 2,177 in total), Guimarães (115 for a total of 1,417), Seixal (112 new, 1,316 in total), Amadora (111 new cases, 3,149 in total) and Oeiras (103, total of 1828) close the list of municipalities with the registration of more new cases in the last week.
The data from the DGS report indicate that, of the total registered deaths, 1,020 are women and 1,030 men. The ten deaths registered in the last 24 hours refer to nine people over 80 years of age (six men and three women) and a man between 70 and 79 years old. The disease caused by the new coronavirus is more deadly in the age group over 70 years: Covid-9 killed 1,778 people of these ages, which represents 86.7% of all deaths registered in all age groups. age.
