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Portugal is experiencing the worst days of the pandemic, with the increase in the number of deaths and infections by covid-19, which is putting pressure on the hospitals of the National Health Service (SNS), increasing with each passing day. The data from the epidemiological bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS) this Monday (January 18) indicate the worsening of the situation in the country: 167 deaths and 6,702 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours.
With these DGS data, the country is witnessing another daily maximum of deaths, which exceeds what was reported on Saturday (166). In total, Portugal has already registered more than nine thousand fatalities (9028). Since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, 556,503 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been confirmed.
The number of hospitalizations is not incessant either. There is a registry of hospitalizations in 24 hours. There has never been an increase of 276 hospitalized patients in one day (compared to the day before).
In this way, Portugal surpassed the barrier of 5000 hospitalizations on Monday. There are currently 5,165 people hospitalized, of which 664 (17 more compared to Sunday), in intensive care units.
The epidemiological bulletin of the health authority also indicates that 4,660 more cases of disease recovery were reported in 24 hours. There are a total of 411 589 recovered.
Portugal currently has 135,886 active covid-19 cases (1,875 more compared to the previous day.
The health authorities have 166 235 contacts under surveillance, 5,115 more than the previous day.
Lisbon and the Tagus Valley continue to be the region most affected by the pandemic, with 2,643 additional cases registered in the last hours (in total, it now totals 186,706). Right next door is the North with more than 2109 covid-19 diagnoses (258 317).
Of the total number of new cases, 1,217 were still registered in the Center, 258 in Alentejo, 239 in the Algarve, 137 in Madeira and 99 in the Azores.
Portugal is the country in the world with the highest number of new cases per million inhabitants
The worsening pandemic is also reflected in the Our World In Data database. Portugal is today the country in the world with the highest number of new cases of infection by the new coronavirus per million inhabitants, according to this website.
With some variations, the country is the only country in the world with more than 1,000 cases per million inhabitants on average during the last seven days, according to Our World in Data (1,018 cases)., from the University of Oxford, and Portuguese Eyedata (1014 cases), with data updated on Sunday.
Regarding the total number of cases per million inhabitants, Portugal appears in 20th place with 53.9 in a list in which small territories such as Andorra, Montenegro or San Marino come to the fore, before the first large country, the United States . The United States, which ranks sixth, with 72.3 cases per million.
No Our world in data, POrtugal appears in second place in number of deaths per million inhabitants in the last seven days (14.9), only surpassed by Slovenia (19.2).
Eyedata, which counts the number of deaths per million since the beginning of the pandemic, places Portugal (866 per million), in position 30 of this list led by Belgium, with 1,770 deaths per million inhabitants attributed to covid-19. and Slovenia, with 1,523.
The “awakening of the sick” of the Ordem dos Médicos
The updated data of the DGS of this Monday appear the day in which the Ordem dos Médicos gives a “cry for the sick.”
The covid-19 crisis office of the structure that represents doctors, in a statement sent to the newsrooms, renews 10 urgent proposals to “protect patients, health professionals, the entire Portuguese population.”
Among the proposals, the Ordem dos Médicos indicates the need to “adopt without reservations and as soon as possible” a general closure similar to that of March last year.
“It is emerging to crush transmission in the community. Given the current evolution of the pandemic, we must act now with all means to have consistent results in two weeks. No one can continue, due to bad political decisions, tolerating the silent death of those who cannot scream.“, but not three notes.
With the country in a state of emergency and confined, with a dramatic situation on the NHS, an extraordinary Council of Ministers was scheduled for Monday to approve more restrictive measures. The objective is to contain the spread of covid-19 in our country.
“I have never seen so many people die in a single 12-hour shift,” says the doctor and the PSD deputy
It is a “war scene and we are losing,” wrote PSD deputy Ricardo Baptista Leite, in a testimony he left on social media after having been “as a volunteer doctor” in the emergency room of the Hospital de Cascais, in the past Saturday. during a weekend in which the Portuguese were shocked by images of ambulance lines in some hospitals in the country. Baptista Leite was more specifically in the space responding to patients and suspected covid-19.
“I have never seen so many people die in a single 12-hour shift,” he wrote about what he saw in the so-called “Covidário”. In the short video accompanying the post, he emphasizes. “I have never seen so many deaths in my professional life in such a short time”, as that day.
He writes that “the scene is war and we are losing.” “It is really devastating to see doctors having to decide, prioritize, who are the patients who will have access to ventilation and who will not “, it says orally in the video message.
“To determine in the background who lives and who dies because there are no intensive care beds, internment spaces are scarce”, lists. “We often have to intubate patients in the emergency room,” he says.
Almost 95 million people have already been infected worldwide.
In fact, the covid-19 pandemic has not given a global respite. Almost 95 million people have been infected with the new coronavirus worldwide since SARS-CoV-2 was identified in China in December 2019, indicates a balance at 11:00 today from the agency France-Presse.
At least 2,031,048 people died and more than 94,964,590 were infected, of which 57,817,100 have been considered cured since the start of the pandemic.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of deaths and cases, with 397,600 deaths in 23,937,332 reported cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
