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There are another 2,597 cases and 78 more deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Portugal, according to data from the situation report of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) this Monday (December 8).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 325 071 cases have been registered in Portugal and 5041 deaths.
There are also 99 more people hospitalized, now there are 3367, which represents a new high (it was not that high since November 30), but one less in intensive care units (513 in total).
Monday’s report also indicates that there are 2,788 more recovered in the last 24 hours (245,843 since the pandemic began), with 269 fewer active cases in total. There are currently 74,187 active cases in the country.
It is in the northern region where the numbers remain highest. There are more than 1231 cases and 38 deaths in 24 hours. It is followed by the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley, with 917 more cases and 24 deaths. In the Center, there are 292 new cases and 14 deaths, while in Alentejo there are more than 92 infections and two deaths. In the Algarve there are 35 more cases, in the Azores there are 21 more and in Madeira another nine.
Among the 78 dead, there is a man in the age group 30 to 39 years. There are still two deaths between 50 and 59 years old, six between 60 and 69 years old, 12 between 70 and 79 years old and the remaining 57 over 80 years old.
35 extremely high risk counties
This Monday’s bulletin also indicates that there are 35 regions where the incidence of new cases of covid-19 in 14 days (November 19 to December 2) is higher than 960 per hundred thousand inhabitants, therefore, where the risk is extremely high. A week ago, there were 50 in this situation.
The most serious situation is in Freixo de Espada à Cinta, with 2,153 cases of covid-19 at 14 days (even better than in the previous week’s bulletin, where it appeared with 3,153). Mondim de Basto follows, with 2030.
More than 1.5 million deaths
The covid-19 pandemic has caused the death of more than 1.5 million people around the world, according to a balance prepared on Monday by the AFP agency, based on official data.
1,535,987 deaths from Covid-19 have been reported since the first cases of the disease appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year.
67,009,760 cases of infection with the new coronavirus were confirmed, of which 42,678,900 were considered recovered
5th day in UK
The UK is the first Western country to start its vaccination campaign with the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine. The “V Day” is already this Tuesday, with British Health Minister Matt Hancock, comparing this week to a “historic moment”.
In a statement, Hancock said that the first groups to receive the vaccine will be “the most vulnerable and those over 80”, as well as employees of homes and nursing homes and the British Public Health Service (NHS). English).
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Return to normal in March or April
“I think we can start to see some impact on the most susceptible people probably in January and February,” Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed for vaccine development in the United States, said Sunday.
“But in terms of population, to get our lives back to normal, we are talking about April or May,” he added in an interview with CBS News. The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine is expected to be approved by the US regulator in the next few days.
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