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In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered another 2,447 cases of covid-19 and another 27 deaths from the disease.
Of the 27 deaths, 13 occurred in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, eight in the north, five in the center and one in the Alentejo.
According to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS) of this Monday (October 26), in total, since the pandemic began, 121,133 infected people have been registered, 69,956 recovered (1,079 more) and 2,343 deaths in parents .
Currently, there are 48,834 active patients (+ 1,341) under follow-up by the health authorities.
Regarding hospitalizations, the number of people hospitalized has continued to increase for more than a week, now being 1,672, 98 more than on Sunday, and of these 240 (plus ten) are in intensive care units.
The northern region continues to record the highest number of new daily infections, today with more than 1,633 cases, totaling 51,932, and 1,030 deaths, eight of which in the last 24 hours, since the pandemic began in March.
In the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley, 580 new cases of infection were reported, accounting for the region 53 412 cases and 940 deaths, 13 of which in the last 24 hours.
In the central region, 167 new cases were registered, surpassing the barrier of 10,000 infections by the new coronavirus (10,118) and 296 deaths.
In Alentejo, 24 new cases of infection were registered, representing 2436 with a total of 37 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Algarve region today reported 27 more cases of infection, totaling 2,496 cases and 25 deaths.
In the autonomous region of the Azores, five more cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding 345 detected infections and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Madeira has registered 11 new cases in the last 24 hours, representing 394 infections, with no record of deaths from covid-19 to date.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years.
In total, the new coronavirus has already affected at least 55,181 men and 65,952 women in Portugal, according to reported cases. Of the total number of deaths, 1,197 were men and 1,146 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The Oxford vaccine produces a “robust immune response” in people over 55 years of age
The vaccine developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca produces “a robust immune response” in people over 55, the newspaper said on Monday. Financial times.
According to the publication, the vaccine produces neutralizing antibodies, which block foreign particles and T lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that destroys infected cells.
In July, a trial of more than 1,000 people showed that it also worked with people between the ages of 18 and 55.
This news comes three days after AstraZeneca announced that it would resume testing the covid-19 vaccine with its volunteers.
AstraZeneca testing stopped in early September after a volunteer participating in the study developed a serious health problem., which required a review of security processes.
Merkel warns that the next few months will be “very difficult”
The German Chancellor warned Germany that the next few months are going to be “very difficult”, since the number of infections by covid-19 continues to grow day by day, having registered 8685 in the last 24 hours.
“We are going to have very, very difficult months ahead,” Merkel warned on Sunday afternoon, in an internal conference with the heads of the conservative parliamentary group in the federal states, according to this Monday’s edition of the newspaper. image.
The chancellor also admitted to being concerned about the 30th meeting between regional authorities and said that she does not “have a very good feeling.”
“This cannot continue like this,” he considered, referring that infections should continue to increase strongly and that, at least until February, it will be necessary to give up large events, even in outdoor spaces.
The chancellor also considered that much of the responsibility for the increase in infections was “on vacation trips.”
The pandemic has already killed more than 1.15 million people
The new coronavirus pandemic has already caused at least 1,155,301 deaths worldwide since the disease became known in December in China and until 11.00 GMT (12.00 in Lisbon), according to an AFP report.
More than 43,080,500 cases of infection have been recorded since the start of the pandemic and at least 29,194,100 people have been cured, according to a report by the French news agency AFP.
The number of diagnosed cases only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, as several countries only analyze the most severe cases.Others favor screening, and many poor countries have only limited screening capacities.
In the last 24 hours, there were 4,313 new deaths and 408,969 more infected worldwide, with the countries that registered the most deaths in the last day were India (480), the United States (461) and Iran (337). .
The United States is the country most affected by covid-19, both in number of deaths and in cases, with a total of 225,239 deaths out of 8,636,995 cases, according to the general balance of Johns Hopkins University.
* with Lusa
