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This Tuesday, Portugal surpassed the eight thousand deaths associated with covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, on a day in which it registered 155 deaths, a new maximum.
It is a number that makes you think. 8,080 lives have been lost by covid-19 since the first death was registered in Portugal, on March 16, 2020, 14 days after the first two cases of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus were diagnosed in the parents.
A figure that arrives in a day with a new record of deaths: 155. Data collected until midnight on Monday and revealed this Tuesday, hours after the epidemiologist Manuel Carmo Gomes had anticipated it, during the meeting of experts and political agents and Infarmed toilets, which would hardly avoid reaching levels of 140 to 150 deaths a day … next week.
The new maximum number of deaths came faster than that predicted by that epidemiologist, with 155 deaths in 24 hours, in what is the fifth consecutive day with more than 100 deaths per day in mainland Portugal.
In the first days of 2021, 1,174 people died, an average of 98 deaths each night, compared to 78 deaths in the December 2020 average, which accumulated 2,401 deaths.
Another 6,028 people recovered from the disease, bringing the number of cured patients to 378,048. With a further 1,076 active cases, there are now 110,388 Portuguese infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The contacts under surveillance are now 125,296, more than 5004, which means that among the sick and confined at the prophylactic level, there are 235,684 Portuguese affected by the disease.
The number of hospitalized patients exceeded four thousand, with another 60 people hospitalized. Of the total of 4,043 hospitalized, 599 are seriously ill, admitted to Intensive Care Units. An increase of 32 patients in the ICU, representing the third highest daily increase in cases since the start of the pandemic, surpassed only by 49 serious hospitalizations on March 29 and 42 on April 1.
More than 100 deaths in the group of more than 80 years
Of the 155 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 108 (43 men and 65 women) were over 80 years old, which represents almost 70% of the total deaths reported in the bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS), this Tuesday. . Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,437 of our elders have died, 67% of the total victims of covid-19 in the country.
The immediately preceding step recorded the loss of 25 lives, 13 men and 12 women, in the last 24 hours. In total, 1,657 people between the ages of 60 and 70 have died since the start of the pandemic, representing 20% of the national total of deaths.
A percentage much higher than that registered in the age group 60 to 70 years, which lost 675 lives since the beginning of the pandemic, 8.4% of the national total, counting the 17 deaths this Tuesday (11 men and six women ).
On a particularly dark day for the elderly, a man under the age of 50 died, raising the number of deaths in the age group from 40 to 39 to 73 since the start of the pandemic. In the next step, from 50 to 59 years old, four men died in the last 24 hours, 151 since the start of the pandemic, to which are added 63 women, for a total of 214 deaths in this age group.
New death highs in the center and in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
The Lisbon and Vale do Tejo Region registered the loss of 68 lives by covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a new record in the outskirts of the capital, which on Monday had reached a record of 47 victims in a single day. In total, 2,843 people have died in that region since the pandemic began.
The Central Region, which had recorded a peak of 28 deaths on Monday, noted a worsening in the numbers. With 36 deaths in the last 24 hours, the cumulative figure now stands at 1,233 dead since the start of the pandemic.
The Northern Region, the most affected by the pandemic, in cases and deaths, reported 36 more lives lost in the last 24 hours, a figure similar to that of Monday. In all, 3,533 people have died in the northernmost part of the country since the pandemic began.
The day when the Algarve reported one more fatality (93 in total) and Madeira two more (20 since the start of the pandemic) the highlight were the 12 deaths reported in Alentejo, which registered double-digit figures in six of 12 days of the year – the total pandemic is 336.
Total cases close to half a million
The number of cases, which the same expert estimates may reach 14,000 a day in the coming weeks, was 7259 this Tuesday, which leaves very close to half the total number of infections officially registered since March 2. million – 496822.
Confirming a trend in the first days of the year, the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (RLVT) is once again the most affected in the number of covid-19 cases, with 3,201 infections registered in the last 24 hours. After the third consecutive day with more cases in the country, the Lisbon environment registered, to date, 163,754 infections.
A number below the total in the Northern Region (RN), the most affected by the pandemic, which registered, from the beginning, a total of 238,581 cases, already counted 2,180 this Tuesday.
The Central Region registered 1,129 more cases, exceeding the threshold of a thousand infections for the seventh time in 12 days. The cumulative figure now stands at 63,048.
This Tuesday, Alentejo registered 434 infections, a slight decrease compared to Monday, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 15,730.
In the Algarve there was also a decrease in cases from Monday to Tuesday, with the 143 records reported today bringing the total count to 10,571 infections.
Decrease also registered in Azores, which registered 101 cases of contagion, 37 less than on Monday. The cumulative figure is 2,656.
Madeira registered a slight increase, from 61 to 71 registrations. 10 more cases that help make up a total of 2,212 since the start of the pandemic.
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