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On the day the European Medicines Agency approved Moderna’s vaccine against covid-19, Portugal for the first time exceeded 10,000 daily cases. In the last 24 hours, 91 deaths and 10,027 cases of contagion by the new coronavirus have been reported.
Data from the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) this Wednesday (January 6) show that it is the largest daily increase in infections since the beginning of the pandemic, exceeding the maximum registered on December 31, the day in Se 7,627 cases were reported.
In just three days, between Monday and Wednesday, 19,352 new cases of the disease were confirmed. There are 7,874 more compared to the same period last week.
In total, since the start of the pandemic, the country has confirmed 446,606 covid-19 diagnoses and 7,377 deaths, according to the health authority.
In addition to the increase in new cases of covid-19, the number of hospitalizations continues to increase. In Portuguese hospitals, there are 3,293 hospitalized patients with the disease (33 more than on Tuesday), of which 513 (one more) are in intensive care units.
DGS data reveals that this is the 5th consecutive day to register an increase in hospitalizations. In the case of intensive care, we have seen an increase in the number of patients hospitalized for the sixth consecutive day.
DGS also indicates that there are more than 3,115 people recovered from the disease, in a total of 352,225.
Portugal currently has 87,004 active cases of covid-19, an increase of 6,821 over the previous day.
Of the more than 10,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours, 3,857 were confirmed in the north, 3,333 in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, 1,932 cases in the Center, 439 in Alentejo, 307 in the Algarve, 107 in the Azores and 52 in Madeira.
At a time when the National Health Service (SNS) is once again in a “phase of immense pressure”, the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, says that Portugal once again “faces a trend of increasing cases” of covid-19 and warns: “the next few days will naturally be very hard” no country.
The official called for “everyone’s help” to prevent the spread of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 and thus relieve pressure on the NHS. Marta Temido pointed out that hospitals have experienced “moments of great pressure” since the beginning of the pandemic, pointing out that All Portuguese “must understand that preventing transmission is a way to help the NHS respond, not only to covid, but to other types of diseases.”
Marcelo in prophylactic isolation
In addition to the increase in infections due to the new coronavirus in the country, which is putting pressure on the SNS hospitals, this day is also marked by the news that the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is in isolation. Preventive prophylactic, pending the risk analysis of the health authorities, for having been in contact with a member of his Civil House with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2.
The decision of the European regulator regarding Moderna’s vaccine was also known on Wednesday. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given a “green light” to the use of the North American pharmaceutical vaccine against covid-19 in the European Union “to prevent the new coronavirus disease in people over 18 years of age”. years”.
Moderna’s vaccine, with a proven efficacy of over 90%, is the second to be approved by the EMA, following the approval, on December 21, 2020, of the drug developed by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech, which is you are using in space. European since December 27.
Covid-19 has killed at least 1,869,674 people in the world since the pandemic began in December 2019, according to a survey conducted this Wednesday by the AFP news agency.
More than 86,395,630 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed since the beginning of the epidemic, of which at least 53,992,400 people have already been cured.
