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Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 2,050 deaths and 82,534 cases of infection, with 28,967 active cases, 788 more than yesterday.
It is the third time, since the beginning of the pandemic, that Portugal has registered more than a thousand new confirmed cases of covid-19 in 24 hours. It had only happened twice, on April 10 – 1,516 cases – and on March 31 – 1,035 cases.
This Thursday, Portugal has the second highest increase in confirmed cases: 1,278. This number is driven by the Northern health region, with 642 new cases and half of the deaths, followed by the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, which adds 482 and three deaths.
In hospitals, admissions are also increasing. There are now 37 more people in the wards, a total of 801, and 11 more in the intensive care units, bringing the total to 115.
Health officials have 46,182 contacts under surveillance, another 159 as of Thursday, and 480 patients were reported to have recovered in the past 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal, 51,517 people have recovered from the disease.
These data are part of the report on the situation in Portugal, until 00:00 hours, and were published this Thursday afternoon by the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
The information, without a specific number, that Portugal had today exceeded a thousand new cases had already been advanced this morning by the Secretary of State for Health, António Lacerda Sales, during a visit to the Braga Hospital.
“We must be very well prepared for what may come,” warned Lacerda Sales, even before the official DGS bulletin was known.
Longest ascent north
The Northern Health Region is currently the one with the highest increase, both in new cases and in deaths, totaling 30,111 confirmed cases of covid-19 (642 more than on Wednesday), and 905 deaths (five more). ).
Then there are Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, which already has 41,707 confirmed cases (an increase of 482 compared to yesterday) and 814 deaths (three more).
The Central region registers the two new remaining deaths (for a total of 271), the third with more new confirmed cases, 101, in a total of 6,662.
Then, the Algarve region adds thirty cases, now counting a total of 1,892 confirmed cases and twenty deaths. In Madeira, there are ten new cases, bringing the total to 267; In the Autonomous Region of Madeira, no deaths have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Alentejo appears then with an increase of nine new cases, totaling 1,604 and 25 deaths. Finally, the Autonomous Region of the Azores adds four new cases, increasing the total to 291 and 15 deaths.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years. The age group of 40 and 49 years is the one with the highest value.
The new coronavirus has already infected at least 37,514 men and 45,020 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1030 were men and 1020 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
At least 1,057 million deaths worldwide
The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed at least 1,057,084 people worldwide since the first case was reported in China, according to the daily balance of the agency France-Press.
More than 36,246,220 people have been infected by the new coronavirus around the world, according to the balance, prepared at 11:00 TMG (12:00 in Lisbon) today according to official sources.
To date, at least 25,100,100 people have been considered cured of covid-19, adds the French agency, highlighting that the official figures reflect only a part of the real number of contaminations in the world.
