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The day the world doubled the 58 million positive cases of covid-19, there are 6379 more cases and 62 deaths in Portugal in the last 24 hours, reported the General Directorate of Health through the epidemiological bulletin.
The number of people hospitalized has decreased: now there are 3,025 less 54 than the day before. However, there is an increase in the number of patients in intensive care units: there are now 485, 4 more than in the previous 24 hours and a new maximum.
6,379 more people recovered, so there are now 82,767 active cases, 31 more than the day before, a total of 255,970 infected people.
The total number of deaths is now 3824, 1967 men and 1857 women.
The North remains ahead of transmissions and deaths in a regional distribution: it added 4,070 more cases and 24 deaths, totaling 132,272 cases and 1,783 deaths.
Lisbon and Vale do Tejo registered almost the same number of deaths, 23, although in the new broadcasts the distance is greater, with 1,534. The region now has 88,139 cases and 1401 deaths. The Central region registered 656 cases and 9 deaths, reaching 24,376 infections and 487 deaths. The Alentejo had 97 more cases and 5 deaths, in a total of 5057 cases and 94 deaths.
The Algarve continues to be the region with the fewest cases. Now it has 57 more people with covid-19 and 1 death, totaling 4606 cases and 42 deaths.
In the autonomous communities, Azores surpassed Madeira in the number of positive cases, registering 48 more and totaling 761, while with the 10 new ones from Madeira the sum reaches 759.
At home, waiting for new measures
More than eight million Portuguese, residing in 191 counties, are this weekend subject to a curfew starting at 1:00 p.m., decreed by the Government in the scope of the state of emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The prime minister announced this Saturday the measures to combat covid-19 by virtue of the presidential decree that extends the state of emergency in Portugal for another 15 days, a diploma that was approved on Friday in parliament.
The presentation of the measures will take place after 6:00 p.m., in the Ajuda National Palace, at the end of the extraordinary Council of Ministers.
The presidential decree establishes a new state of emergency, the second of this second wave of the pandemic, for the period between 00:00 on November 24 (next Tuesday) and 11:59 p.m. on December 8 (Tuesday).
Once again, it allows measures such as the curfew, but opens the door to confinements at different speeds depending on the severity of the situation in the municipalities.
“In the municipalities with higher levels of risk, the necessary restrictions may be imposed to reduce the risk of contagion and implement measures to prevent and combat the epidemic, and the measures to be adopted must be calibrated according to the degree of risk in each municipality,” it reads on the diploma.
Spain does not require vaccination
In the neighboring country, the Minister of Health said this Saturday that for the moment he ruled out the obligation of the vaccine against covid-19, with which the government plans to start administering in January with the aim of immunizing a large part of the population. population in the first half of 2021.
“The specialists guarantee that it should not be mandatory, that this could even be counterproductive. In our country there is already a good tradition of vaccination, ”Salvador Illa said in an interview with Radio Rac1.
“Although we could legally, we believe that it is not convenient for it to be mandatory. Simply by explaining it well, we are sure that there will be a high level of response,” he added.
The Spanish executive will present a plan on Tuesday that plans to vaccinate “a very substantial part of the population” in the first half of 2021, announced this Friday the head of government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez.
With more than 46 million inhabitants, Spain has more than 1.5 million positive cases since the beginning of the pandemic, among which 42 619 people died. In the last week, the number of new transmissions exceeded an average of 10,000 per day and the number of deaths ranged between 162 (minimum) and 435 (maximum).
