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APost has been revealed epidemiological bulletin this friday, the press conference of to update information regarding infection for the new coronavirus In Portugal. This today has the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, with the director-General de Salud, Graça Freitas, and with Raquel Guiomar from the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (BUT).
The official pointed out that the region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo “represents 56.2% of the new cases” registered and that of the North “29.3%”. A Cup of Lethality stands at 2.7% and a rate of Lethality 13.8% older than 70 years.
Of the total confirmed cases of COVID-19-19 to date, “65.2% are people who have already recovered, 31.2% are people who have a disease active at home, there are 0.9% hospitalizations “, also mentioned.
There is, at this moment, “287 shoots active no country “. Of these, 124 in the North, 31 in the Center, 93 in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, 17 in the Alentejo and 22 in the Algarve. Marta Temido, in her opening statement, also revealed that the the incidence rate calculated at seven days “now stands at 47.4 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants” and the incidence rate at 14 days at “89.8 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants”.
The National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (BUT) updated the numbers for estimating the calculation of RT and “Now estimate the average value from 16 to 20 September at 1.09 “, “slightly lower than in previous days”.
Regarding the tests, the Minister of Health stated that “we continue to carry out an increasing number per day”, September “There was an average of 18,238 tests per day.” On 16 September So far, it has been the day with the most tests, with 23,453. Of the total, 48% are carried out in public laboratories.
“The Ministry of Health to update Today the price of the tests paid by the National Health Service to the contracted entities of the zone of clinical pathology / clinical tests for laboratory diagnosis “ to COVID-19-19, and “the defined value results from technical information” and “cost reduction,” he said.
Tests “The reference […] It’s of PCR in real time”
Raquel Guiomar, from the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, stressed that “now it is important to make a point of view in relation to what exists” in relation to the tests and “to what is recommended.” The “benchmark test […] is he PCR in real time “, which” allows to have a highly reliable, very sensitive and specific result “.
There are also tests that allow the evaluation of antibodies and immunity to this new virus “, added the expert, accompanying that “These are mainly recommended to assess the presence of antibodies at the population level”.
In reference to rapid tests, Raquel Guiomar said that “at the beginning of pandemic have already been evaluated “by the BUT but, “Due to the mismatch of the results with the reference method, they were not recommended at the time”.
Now a “new generation of these tests” is being evaluated that “They have advantages, they allow to obtain a result quickly, they are of low complexity of execution and they allow to make the diagnosis close to the patient”. However, they have “very specific criteria for their selection“, which will be” duly defined by the experts. ”
“The outbreaks in schools have been small”
Asked about the pandemic in schools, Graça Freitas took the floor to explain that “When a single case occurs, that case may not arrive detected and marked on our sprout grid, because it is an individual case. However, it may result in some contacts going home “. On the other hand, “there is circumstances in what, for example, it is a determination not of Health but of Education to close some rooms for professional reasons ”, he explained.
“The beginning of the year academic it is being quite peaceful from the point of view of the number of cases and even the number of outbreaks. There are very few cases reported and when there are outbreaks in schools they have been small “, considered the director-General.
4,914 health professionals hired COVID-19-19
Already 4,914 health professionals hired COVID-19-19 since the beginning of pandemic, also advanced director-General Health: The most affected group was nurses, with 1,418 cases, followed by operational assistants (1,395) and doctors (623).
“The good news,” he added, is that “It was reported that more than four thousand of these professionals recovered from the disease they had”.
“Residential structures for the elderly and the most vulnerable” are cause for concern
Marta Temido then highlighted that “from the first hour, residential structures for the elderly and most vulnerable” have “been at the center of our main concern”. There are currently 76 households with patients infected and we have 47 sprouts active in residential structures for the elderly.
“We had somewhere April past 365 structures with cases active, today we have this number of 76. It is a situation that continues to have the main focus, but I want to emphasize that the success of these cases depends on multiple interventions, ”said the minister.
Traffic lights? Portugal stands out “for not stigmatizing“
Asked about the ‘traffic lights’ for municipalities and / or parishes warning about the risk of contagion from the new coronavirus, the Minister of Health stated that “this is a nomenclature that is being used in some European countries” and that, at this time “What we are doing is working on the health plan for the autumn/Winter which has multiple frames, but does not have that specific frame “.
“Colors, like everything in life, have some limitations,” he defended, adding that “We have to realize that it is an alternative to use a more minute visually, but we have to reinforce this classification with other criteria “. Portugal “has stood out for the proportionality of its measures”, but also “for the non-focus stigmatizing“, considered Fearful.
Portugal is in the “third phase” of COVID-19-19
On the ‘phases’ of pandemicMarta Temido recalled the statements of Baltazar Nunes in one of the conferences last week. “Some countries faced, like Spain, a first wave, then they reached a level close to the base and now they are clearly in a second phase,” he stressed, noting that the analysis of the epidemiological curves of Portugal “deserves another type of analysis”.
“What is evident is that we had a first climb, we never reached the base and now we are in a third moment. I don’t know if it is technically law Call it second, I’d say it’s a third phase. At least, it is a third phase of what we have faced on the ground in terms of the health system: the first phase was in March/April, the second phase was very accentuated in June me July in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley and now we have a situation of increasing incidence“, finished.
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