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At a time when the daily average of new cases of coronavirus infection in the last seven days reached a maximum of 1,146.9 in Portugal, there are still 17 municipalities without contagions or with two or fewer cases.
On the other hand, there are already 35 municipalities in the country that have more than half a thousand infected since the beginning of the pandemic. And almost half of these municipalities (17) exceed 1,000 cases.
In the last week alone, there were 15 counties with more than 100 new infected. With more than 50 new cases, there are 24 municipalities and in 84 counties at least 10 additional cases have been reported. Lisbon, the most populous municipality in the country, registered the highest weekly increase, with 495 new infections, remaining as the municipality with the most cases: 7,460.
Porto surpassed Sintra in the number of new cases in the last week. Invicta registered more than 363 infected people, while Sintra, the second municipality with the most inhabitants, added 306 new cases.
Even more than one hundred cases in the last seven days, counts the counties of Loures (237), Cascais (203), Vila Nova de Gaia (168), Seixal (140), Guimarães (139), Paços de Ferreira (124), Vila Franca de Xira (123), Odivelas (120), Amadora (119), Oeiras (113), Matosinhos (111) and Bragança (110).
Of the 17 counties without cases (or less than three), seven are in the Alentejo, six in the Azores, three in the Center region and one in the North. All these municipalities have a small population, being Penalva do Castelo the one with the most inhabitants: 7,115.
Portugal currently has 87,913 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
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