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This Friday, Portugal reported 258 deaths associated with covid-19, in a day with 6,916 new records of the disease caused by the new coronavirus and a new maximum in ICU.
With 258 more deaths, there are 13,740 total deaths registered since the beginning of the pandemic, while the total number of infected people has exceeded 750,000, 11 months after registering the first case in Portugal.
According to the bulletin of the General Health Directorate, this Friday, the number of patients fighting for life reached a new peak: 904, 41 more than on Thursday, while the number of hospitalized patients fell for the fourth consecutive day, by a total of 6412 people hospitalized, minus 84.
For the first time, Portugal surpassed the barrier of 900 interned in Intensive Care Units. A figure, 904 critical patients, reached at the end of a week with four consecutive days of drop in hospital admissions and marked by the fall in the number of covid cases, which fell for the third consecutive day, from more than nine thousand infections on Wednesday at 6916 this Friday.
The number of infected people reported today represents about half of the cases reported on Friday of last week (12,435). The record for fatalities, 258, is also lower than the one reported a week ago (293), despite being the third worst record since the beginning of the month, as it confirmed an increase in relation to 225 cases on Thursday, the lowest record from January 21, and at 240 on Thursday.
Two deaths among people under 40
In a day with more than 258 deaths, 172 (79 men and 93 women) of chias over 80, equivalent to 67% of the daily total, reported the death of two women under 40 years of age, a warning that covid-19 , which is most penalizing among the elderly, is also fatal for the young.
They are fewer, but they are lives that are lost. Two more in the 40-49 age bracket, one of each gender, with a total of 117 deaths in this age bracket since the start of the pandemic. In the next step, there are five more victims to mourn (three men and two women), for a cumulative 351 deaths among people over 50 and under 59 years.
In the age group of 60-69 years, 28 deaths were reported, 19 men and nine women, for a total of 1,177 since the beginning of the pandemic, while in the next age group, 70-79 years, laments for the loss of 49 lives, 30 men and 19 women – 2,812 deaths in total. The age group of people over 80 years old has lost 9,237 lives since the start of the pandemic, with 172 deaths already reported until midnight on Thursday, when the figures presented in the DGS bulletin released this Friday afternoon were closed. .
Lisbon with more deaths …
Accentuating a trend that has been taking place since the beginning of the year, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (RLVT) is the most affected by the lethality of the disease, having reported 142 deaths in the last 24 hours, the second worst day of the week. In total, 3,650 lives were lost around the capital, the area of the country that reported the most deaths associated with covid-19 since the start of the pandemic – 5491 in total.
The Northern Region (RN) reported 39 deaths, the lowest record in weeks, in a figure that represents the third day followed by a decrease in the number of deaths, which reached a total of 4,734, since the start of the pandemic.
In the Central Region (CR), the increase from 38 to 42 in the death registry, from yesterday to today, does not pinch the downward trend registered since the beginning of February, in the hangover of a particularly lethal month in January in that zone. of the country, which ended with 77 deaths on the 31st.
With 25 deaths, one of the highest daily records in history, Alentejo is already mourning the loss of 766 lives since the start of the pandemic. Further south, in the Algarve, 10 people died, 244 in total.
Death passed on the islands. The Azores have sustained the same 26 deaths since the start of the pandemic, while in Madeira 46 people have died since March 2020.
… and more cases of covid-19
With specific exceptions during the month of January, the RLVT has been the most affected by the virus practically since the beginning of the year, adding the 12th consecutive day as the region with the most cases in the country. By registering another 3,650 infections, a little less than the 3,993 on Thursday, there are now 280,114 of the total confirmed cases of covid-19 in the capital.
In the accumulated result, it is the North Region that leads, with a total of 314 865 cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, already counting 1704 this Friday, a figure slightly below the 1704 reported on Thursday.
At the Center, records remain above 1,000 for the third day in a row, although Friday’s 1,050 cases are down from Thursday’s 1,118. The total is now 107,589 since the pandemic began.
The Alentejo registered 186 new cases, the lowest number in the last 30 days, having now accumulated 26,470 infections, while the Algarve reported 202 infections, almost half of the 387 on Thursday, to 18,425.
There was also a sharp drop in Madeira, which reported 107 cases this Friday, less than half of the 264 on Thursday, a total of 4,712 since the start of the pandemic. In the Azores, 17 infections were registered, four less than on Thursday, with the accumulated in 3599.
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