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This Monday, Portugal registers 1,144 deaths (plus nine deaths in 24 hours) and 27,679 positive cases (plus 98) caused by the new coronavirus, according to the daily bulletin of the General Directorate of Health.
The report maintains the number of patients who are already recovering from the disease (2,549) compared to Sunday.
In relation to hospitalized patients, there are 805 hospitalized patients (eight more), of whom 112 are in intensive care (remains on Sunday).
The Secretary of State for Health revealed that 547 thousand tests have been carried out since the beginning of March, but since the beginning of May “more tests have been carried out than in the entire month of March”, there is an average of 13,100 per day. “The more we test, the more we know about the country’s epidemiological reality.”
A The northern region has the highest number of deaths (651), followed by the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley (248), the Center (216), the Algarve (14), the Azores (14) and the Alentejo, which records a case, according to the situation report Epidemiological, with data updated until midnight on Sunday, keeping the Autonomous Region of Madeira with no record of deaths.
The overall case fatality rate is 4.1% and rises to 15.2% in 70 years, António Lacerda Sales revealed at the press conference.
The Secretary of State said that This week more personal protection material will arrive, giving as an example, two million surgical masks and 1.7 million FFP2 and P3 respirators, among other materials, “which guarantees a certain stability in the renewal of stocks that remain crucial”.
Portugal entered a calamity situation on May 3, after three consecutive periods of emergency since March 19. This new phase of the fight against Covid-19 provides for mandatory confinement for sick people and under active surveillance, the general duty of home collection and the mandatory use of masks or visors in public transport, public assistance services, schools and business establishments.
Under the Government Dismantling Plan, restaurants and cafes can reopen starting May 18, but in accordance with restrictions imposed in the context of mitigating the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the case of restaurants, the capacity limit is 50%, with operation until 11 at night and specific conditions.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the pandemic has already claimed more than 280,000 deaths and infected more than four million people in 195 countries and territories. More than 1.3 million patients were considered cured.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
Map of Covid-19 in Portugal
