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In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered 4,097 more cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and 70 more died from covid-19, according to the epidemiological bulletin released this Wednesday by the General Directorate of Health (DGS). Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has registered a total of 332,073 cases and 5,192 deaths.
72,181 cases are active today, an increase of 1,755 compared to Tuesday.
According to Wednesday’s DGS bulletin, there are 69 more hospitalized patients compared to Tuesday’s bulletin, for a total of 3,332. There are also five more patients in intensive care, which now makes a total of 504 patients in intensive care units.
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The highest number of new infections in the last 24 hours is maintained in the North region (2,076 more than in the last report), followed by Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (1,157 more cases) and the Central Region (555 more cases).
Regarding the number of deaths, it is also in the North region where the highest number of deaths is registered in the last 24 hours (plus 30 deaths), followed also by Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (21 deaths) and also followed by the Central region, with another 13 dead.
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Health authorities have 76,405 contacts under surveillance, 1,360 fewer than Tuesday, the data shows, pointing to 2,272 more recovered patients.
Since the start of the epidemic in Portugal in March, 254,700 people have recovered.
Of the 70 deaths registered in the last 24 hours, 30 occurred in the North region, 21 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 13 in the Center region and six in Alentejo.
According to the DGS bulletin, the North region has the highest number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the last 24 hours (2,076), totaling 174,612 cases and 2,505 deaths since March.
In the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 1,157 new cases have been reported, with 108,053 cases of infection and 1,794 deaths so far.
In the Central region there were 555 more cases of covid-19, totaling 34,127 and 683 deaths since March.
In Alentejo, another 163 cases were reported, for a total of 7,153 cases and 134 deaths since the epidemic began in Portugal.
The Algarve region has reported 97 new cases today, with a total of 5,886 cases and 55 deaths.
Madeira registered 21 new cases. Since March, the autonomous community has registered 1,007 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 146,088 men and 179,781 women in Portugal, according to DGS data, according to which there are 6,204 cases of unknown sex, which are under investigation, since these data are provided automatically.
Of the total deaths, 2,731 were men and 2,461 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The country is in a state of emergency from November 9 to December 23, a period during which there is a mandatory curfew in the counties with the highest risk of contagion.
Azores with 27 new boxes and three new transmission chains
The Azores registered 27 new positive cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, 16 in São Miguel and 11 in Terceira Island, and three new chains of transmission of the disease were detected.
The information appears in today’s bulletin from the Azores Health Authority, which indicates that the cases were detected in 756 analyzes carried out in the two reference laboratories in the region, with 10 recoveries to be reported in the last 24 hours, all in Angra do Heroísmo. Terceira Island.
Currently, a total of 15 patients are hospitalized in the region, seven at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo in Ponta Delgada (São Miguel island), seven at the Hospital de Santo Espírito on the island of Terceira, three of which are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and one at Hospital da Horta, in Faial.
51 transmission chains are active, most of which (37) in São Miguel.
There are 464 active positive cases of covid-19 in the Azores, of which 344 in São Miguel, 118 in Terceira, one in Pico and one in Faial.
To date, 1,356 cases of infection with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been detected in the Azores, which causes the covid-19 disease, with 20 deaths and 788 recoveries.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,557,814 deaths as a result of more than 68.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to the latest assessment by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
