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Portugal registered 4007 additional cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours and 39 more deaths, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) this Saturday (October 31). Figures more positive than the day before, the worst day on record, when there was a record 4,656 new cases and 40 deaths.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 141,279 cases have been registered, with 80,280 recovered (2,831 more), in addition to 2507 deaths. Therefore, there are 58,492 active cases, 1,137 more since Friday’s bulletin.
The latest bulletin includes 45 more hospitalizations, now 1972, with 286 people in intensive care, an increase of 11 compared to the previous day. There are 791 fewer contacts under surveillance, but authorities still monitor 64,514 contacts.
The highest increase in cases continues to be in the North (over 1900), followed by the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley (over 1406) and the Center (552). These last two regions are the only ones that registered a greater increase in cases than the previous day (there were 1,357 more in Lisbon and 334 in the Center), with the others with lower figures. In the Algarve there are more than 80 cases and in the Alentejo there are 61. In Madeira there are five more cases and in the Azores three more.
In Saturday’s data, only on the islands there were no deaths from covid-19. In the North there are 23 more registered, in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo there are 12 more, in the Center there are two more deaths. Alentejo and Algarve each have one. All new deaths are over 60, 30 of them over 80.
But it is among the age groups of 20 to 29 years, 30 to 39 and 40 to 49 where the greatest increase in cases is registered, above 600 in all of them (667, 610 and 680 respectively). Between 50 and 59 years there are 553 more cases, while between 10 and 19 there are 389 more and up to 9 years there are 164. Between 60 and 69 years there are 382 more cases, between 70 and 79 there are more than 239 and more than 80 are 323 more.
Meeting of the Council of Ministers
The Council of Ministers meets to decide whether to move towards more restrictive measures in place or towards a general curfew, which implies re-decreeing the state of emergency. PSD supports the Government in the decision, but the left does not want to impose very strict rules.
The first scenario on the table is very similar to that in force in the municipalities most affected by the pandemic in the north of the country, which will lead to a reinforcement of teleworking whenever possible, restrictions on business hours and restaurants and cultural events.
If these measures are approved, they would cover localities with 240 new cases of contagion per day, in the last 14, per 100,000 inhabitants, and those bordering the most complicated from the pandemic point of view.
The second scenario involves the activation of a new state of emergency, which allows a curfew from 11:00 p.m.
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More than 45 million cases
The new coronavirus has infected more than 45 million people around the world since December 2019, when the first case was diagnosed, 1.1 million of whom died, according to the daily balance of the AFP agency.
Since the beginning of the pandemic and until 11:00 GMT (same time in Lisbon) today, 45,650,850 cases of infection by the new coronavirus have been reported, two thirds of which (30,425,200) are considered cured.
In these ten months, 1189892 people died from covid-19, according to the agency, which warns that the figures represent only a part of the real number of cases and deaths, given the differences from country to country in the criteria and in the capacity to perform them . tests.
On Friday, 7,365 deaths and more than half a million (558,737) new cases were reported worldwide.
