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The number of hospitalizations increased again according to the data released this Wednesday in the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS): 63 more hospitalizations, after registering 67 minus the day before. Thus, the total number of hospitalizations (3,338) again approached the maximum reached on Monday, with 3,342.
The number of hospitalized in intensive care also returned to the same Monday (525): after having dropped four, they rose four this Wednesday.
The number of people recovered from the infection this Wednesday, 2,569, has not dropped to reduce the number of active cases. There are 747 more active cases, for a total of 75,755 infections. On Tuesday, the numbers were very different, there were 7,935 people who recovered from the infection and 5,606 less active cases than the day before. Still, the number of active cases is still lower than on November 8.
In the last 24 hours there have been 3,384 new cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2, but still far from the more than 6,300 cases registered on November 26 (last Thursday). Thus, 983 new cases were registered compared to the previous day, after five days with a decrease in the number of new cases.
This decrease in the number of cases coincided with the first weekend of the ban on traveling outside the municipality and the third curfew for the areas with the highest risk of contagion. At this time, it is not yet possible to say whether the decrease in the number of new cases is the result of the current measures or a possible reduction in the number of tests these days.
This Wednesday, posted 68 more deaths from Covid-19 – four less than reported on Tuesday. In total, Portugal has already registered 303,846 infections and 4,645 deaths.
A northern region continues to record the most new cases and deaths within 24 hours. This Wednesday, the epidemiological bulletin of the DGS reported 1,857 new cases in the North (about 55% of the total) and 36 deaths (53%). In total, this region has already registered 159,642 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and 2,218 deaths from Covid-19. This Wednesday, the North registered 557 more daily cases and seven fewer deaths than the previous day.
A Lisbon region and Tagus Valley It is the second region of the country with the highest number of new cases (28% of the total), approximately half of the North region and more than double that of the Central region. There are 939 new cases, 401 more than the previous day, in a total of 100,000 since the start of the pandemic. There were 23 deaths (34%), for a total of 1,646 in this region.
A Central region It is the third with the most new cases and deaths, although it represents only about a third of Lisbon, but much higher than the other two regions of the continent. There are 401 new cases (12%), for a total of 30,426, and seven deaths (10%), of the 590 registered since the beginning of the pandemic.
In other regions 85 new cases were recorded in the Alentejo, 74 in the Algarve, 22 in the Azores and six in Madeira. Of these regions, there were only deaths in Alentejo (2).
Among the new cases of infection in the last 24 hours, 1,901 are women (56%) and 1,461 are men. In total, 164,601 women and 134,042 men have been infected, but there are still 5,203 cases for which there is no indication of gender.
The age group of 40-49 years is the one with the most new cases – 362 in women and 261 in men. But, in general, most of the cases are between 20 and 59 years old, adult population of working age.
It should be noted that there are 228 new cases among children up to the age of nine and 446 among the elderly over 70 years.
The vast majority of deaths registered in the last 24 hours refer to patients with Covid-19 older than 70 years: 35 men (16 between 70-79 and 19 over 80) and 27 women (25 of whom are over 80). Women did not register deaths under the age of 70.
More than half of the deaths (60%) occurred among men, of whom six were under the age of 70: two men between 40-49 years and four between 60-29 years.
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