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Portugal added the third consecutive day with more than six thousand cases of covid-19 and exceeded 250 thousand infections since the start of the pandemic. Another 62 deaths recorded.
Regarding deaths, 62 more were registered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 3824. Of the lives lost in the last 24 hours, the North cries for 24 more people (1783 in total) and 23 in the Lisbon Region and Tagus Valley. , which has already lost 1401 people due to causes associated with covid-19.
The Central Region has lost nine more lives, out of a total of 487 since the beginning of the pandemic, while in Alentejo there are five more deaths, for a cumulative 94. On a day when death from covid-19 touched the entire mainland, there is another fatality in the Algarve (42 in total).
There are no records of recent mortals on the islands. In the Azores, 15 lives were lost, the last on May 12, and in Madeira two, the most recent on November 9.
In hospitals, the pressure has decreased, with 54 fewer hospitalized (3,025 in total), but the patients who inspire more attention are now 485 (four more).
There are 6,379 more recovered from the disease, one of the highest daily records in history, bringing the number of people who have overcome covid-19 to 169,379.
In total, there are 31 more active cases of the disease in Portugal, for a total of 82,767, and 112 more people under surveillance, out of 80,521.
Round numbers that make you think
Round numbers are always an opportunity for reflection. To think that the sick, many with problems for the rest of their lives, are more than that, than a sum of numerical units. In this case, since March 2, 255970, the accounts for this Saturday.
Round numbers, thickened in the last week, which registered six of the seven days with more than six thousand cases, the last three in a row, among which is the maximum in history: 6994, on Thursday.
The northern region, the most affected in the first wave, is also the most affected by the second wave, with no end in sight: the last 24 hours, according to the report of the Directorate General of Health, the northernmost region of the country reported 4,070 new infections, equivalent to about 62% of the national total of 6,472.
The Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, the largest in the country and the second most affected, added the fourth consecutive day with more than 1,500 positive cases. With more than 1534 infections, 23% of the total, accumulates 88139 infections since the start of the pandemic.
The Center, very affected in the first wave, is also being penalized by the second wave, presenting notification records higher than those of the first months of the pandemic in the country. This Saturday there are more than 656, for a cumulative of 24,376.
In Alentejo, 97 new cases of covid-19 were registered, for a total of 5,057. The Algarve region today reported 57 more cases of infection, totaling 4,606 cases and 42 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 48 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, totaling 761 infections and 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic (regional data indicates 16 deaths).
Madeira recorded another 10 new cases between Friday and Saturday, with a total of 759 infections and two deaths.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years.
The new coronavirus has already infected at least 112,961 men and 138,276 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
The bulletin indicates that there are 4,733 confirmed cases of unknown sex that are under investigation, as this data is not automatically released.
Of the total deaths, 1,967 were men and 1,857 women. The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,373,381 deaths as a result of more than 57.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
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