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After this Sunday, another 5,784 cases of contagion by the new coronavirus were registered in Portugal, this Monday the usual daily bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) came to account for a reduction of 29.2% in the number of cases , which, in itself, is also common, with the count of 4,096 new cases reflecting the downward trend in the number of pandemics in the first days of the week, thanks to the lower testing capacity over the weekend .
Even so, and despite the “Monday factor”, this is the seventh worst day of the pandemic in new cases (if we do not count last November 4, the day in which more than 3 thousand related cases were reported at the same time with an analysis laboratory in the north of the country).
Since March, 183,420 people have been infected throughout the country and 2,959 have died from complications associated with Covid-19, 63 of them only in the last 24 hours, which makes this November 9 the heaviest day in terms of victims. pandemic; never before have there been so many in just 24 hours.
Also with regard to hospitalizations, the maximum numbers have been successively beaten. This Sunday, with 2,337 new admissions, 325 of them in intensive care units (ICU), the news headlines were all going in this direction; this Monday everything got worse: in 24 hours there are 129 more hospitalized in nursing and 13 in intensive care.
The number of admissions to the ICU has been increasing for five days, there are currently 391 beds occupied in these services by patients with Covid-19 and there are, in total, 2,651 people hospitalized in the country.
In the last 24 hours, with a new maximum number of deaths associated with Covid-19, only one region of the country did not count any deaths: the Azores.
In the North, the region most affected by the disease, 33 people died; and in the region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo there were 22 deaths. In the Central region 5 people died. In each of the others, Alentejo, Algarve and Madeira, a new death was recorded.
75% of the deaths registered until midnight on Monday in the Covid-19 accounts refer to patients over 80 years old: 22 men and 25 women.
Of the 63 new deaths reported this Monday by the DGS, and taking these 47 registered in octogenarians, 7 correspond to people between 70 and 79; 5 to patients between 60 and 69 years old; and 3 took place in the immediately lower age group, 50-59. A man between 40 and 49 years old died.
The North returns this Monday, as has been the rule in recent weeks, to be the region most affected by the pandemic, with 55.3% of all new cases of contagion.
It is followed by the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, with 29.7% of cases; the Center, with 9.3%; the Alentejo, with 3.6%; and the Algarve, with 1.5%. The Azores and Madeira account for 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively, of the 4,096 cases of infection registered in the last 24 hours in Portugal.
In the analysis of new infections by age groups, there are no news either: most cases continue to be registered in men and women between 20 and 59 years old, 60.1%.
It is between 40 and 49 years that new cases of infection were registered in the last 24 hours, 16.6% of the total. They are followed by 30-39 (14.8%); 20-29 (14.6%) and only then 50-59 (14.1%).
Despite representing the highest number of deaths, men and women over the age of 80 account for only 7.6% of new infections.
Because not everything is bad news, also in the last 24 hours, it was reported that another 2,302 people recovered, the fifth lowest figure since the beginning of November, but that caused the 100,000 barrier to be exceeded.
Among the 183,420 infected since the start of the pandemic, 102,083 (55.7%) have already been reported as recovered. There are 78,378 active cases at this time, 1,731 more than this Sunday.
