[ad_1]
There are another 29 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the region in the last 24 hours and only seven recoveries, bringing the total number of active cases to 244.
This is the highest number since June, when there was an outbreak in a house in Aljubarrota to find so many positive cases in one day in the region.
Ourém is the municipality with the greatest unevenness, with 10 more positive cases. From what the LEIRIA REGION was able to learn, these cases are related to a group that will have recently been in the Algarve, which also increases the number of people under surveillance in the municipality.
Pombal with six cases and Leiria with five continue today Thursday the growth trend registered in recent days.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, last March, Leiria is the municipality in the region (Leiria district and Ourém municipality) with the most confirmed cases, with 282 cases, of which 214 patients have recovered (one in the last 24 hours).
Peniche (three), Porto de Mós (two), Batalha (one), Marinha Grande (one) and Alcobaça (one) are the remaining municipalities with the most cases confirmed by the health authorities since yesterday.
There have been seven recoveries since Wednesday. In addition to the recovery in Leiria, Alcobaça has three more recovered people and Porto de Mós, Pombal and Caldas da Rainha plus one each.
Since March, 1,337 people have tested positive for infection with the new coronavirus in the region. Of these, 1,049 have already recovered and have confirmed 44 deaths associated with Covid-19. There are 244 active patients.
Portugal registers 691 new cases of infection
Portugal today registers three more deaths from covid-19, compared to Wednesday, and 691 more confirmed cases of contagion, according to data from the General Directorate of Health (DGS) published minutes ago.
According to the daily epidemiological bulletin, the total number of deaths from covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic is now 1,931 and the total number of confirmed cases is 71,156 infected.
The number of patients reported as recovered also increased, with 386 people recovering today, with a total of 46,676 cases now in this situation.
The DGS records 17 additional hospitalizations in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people hospitalized to 588, while the number of patients in intensive care units is currently 85 (plus eight). These figures worry the authorities since they have been increasing daily with values higher than the
The three registered deaths occurred in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (two) and Centro (one) regions.
Lisbon and the Tagus Valley continue to be the region with the highest number of new cases with 321 new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours, followed by the North with 267 new cases.
