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Portugal registered, in the last 24 hours, 899 new cases of covid-19 (an increase of 1.26%) and five more deaths, according to data from the epidemiological bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS), released this Friday. (September 25th). Since the pandemic began in the country in March, 72,055 positive cases of the disease and 1,936 deaths have been confirmed.
The number of hospitalizations continues to increase. There are currently 624 hospitalized patients (36 more than the day before), of which 86 are in intensive care units (one more).
There are another 327 people recovered from the disease, for a total of 47,003 and 23,116 active cases (567 more than Thursday).
Of the new reported cases, 505 were registered in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, which represents 56% of the national total. The northern region confirmed another 263 new cases, the Center has 52 more, the Algarve more 47 and the Alentejo more 30. There were two new cases in the Azores and Madeira, without new diagnoses of covid-19.
The DGS bulletin indicates that the deaths that occurred in the last 24 hours occurred in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (three), in the Center (one) and in the North (one). One of the fatal victims was 78 years old, the rest were more than 80 years old, said the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, during a press conference on the evolution of the pandemic in Portugal.
In view of these data, the fatality rate is 2.7% and that of those over 70 years of age is 13.8%.
There are 287 active shoots
The minister indicated that there are currently 287 active foci in Portugal, and “the North is the region with the most active foci, associated with restaurants and tourism,” Marta Temido reported.
Regarding households, “a very complex situation”, there are 76 residences with infected users, and there are currently 47 active outbreaks throughout the country. In April, there were 365 nursing homes with active cases, added the head of the Health portfolio.
The minister also said that the incidence rate in the last week is 44.7 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants and after 14 days it is 89 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants.
The average value of the Transferability Risk (RT), from September 16 to 20, stands at 1.09 “a little lower than in previous days”Marta Temido said. “You always have to read the risk of transmission with the number of new cases,” she clarified.
The test will distinguish the new coronavirus from other respiratory infections, such as influenza
Also this Friday it was known that Portugal will have a diagnostic test that will allow “differentiating the new coronavirus from other types of seasonal respiratory infections”, such as the flu, helping doctors to make more precise diagnoses, revealed this Friday. the medical director of Unilabs, the company that will make the tests available.
“The idea was to try to have a diagnostic tool that, at the same time, would allow us to differentiate whether or not it is covid-19 and, if not, which virus is causing this clinical picture,” said António Maia Gonçalves.
Speaking to Lusa, the medical director of Unilabs Portugal explained that the tool emerged as part of a collaboration with a South Korean laboratory.
This “diagnostic weapon”, which will be available “in the next 10 days”, will thus allow, through a single sample through the nasopharyngeal swab, to know if it is SARS-CoV-2 or other respiratory pathologies.
The test, carried out with a medical prescription, can be carried out in the same places as the covid-19 tests, in ‘drive thru’ or in some units of the company. Results will be available 24 to 36 hours after this test is done.
More than 984,000 people died from the pandemic
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 980,000 people and infected more than 32 million worldwide since December, according to a report by the AFP agency based on official data.
According to the balance of the French news agency, today at 11:00 TMG (12:00 in Lisbon), at least 984,068 people have died and 32,298,410 have been infected in 196 countries and territories since the beginning of the epidemic of December 19, 2019, in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Health officials have already considered at least 22,141,000 people cured.
With lusa
