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There are 5,080 more cases and 95 more deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Portugal, according to data from the situation report from the General Directorate of Health (DGS) this Friday (December 11).
It is a record in the daily number of deaths in Portugal, surpassing the 91 registered on November 16. And there was no region of the country where there were no deaths. There were 41 more in the northern region, 32 more in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 16 in the center, two in the Alentejo and two in the Algarve, and one in each of the autonomous regions, Azores and Madeira.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 340,287 cases have been registered in Portugal and 5,373 deaths from covid-19.
In the bulletin there is also a record of 74 fewer people hospitalized (3,230 are now) and two less in intensive care (507).
There are still an additional 4,100 recovered (there are 263,648 since the pandemic began). Thus, there are 71,266 active cases throughout the country (885 more than the previous day) and the authorities have 74,894 contacts under surveillance (less 739).
In relation to new cases, the North region continues to have more new infections. There are 2395 more, while in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo there are 1618. In the Center there are 787 more, in Alentejo another 193, in the Algarve more than 66. In the Azores there are 16 more cases and in Madeira another five.
Of the 95 deaths, 70 are in patients older than 80 years (more than 47 of them women). There are also 19 deaths in the age group 70 to 79 and six more between the ages of 60 and 69.
Portuguese time tests before Christmas
Many Portuguese are scheduling tests with Covid-19 for the days before Christmas to be able to reconnect with the family, according to Unilabs Portugal, which only for December 22 has more than 1,500 appointments.
“Of the comunication [em 05 de dezembro] from the Prime Minister regarding how Christmas will be, that is, on Monday and Tuesday, we had a large increase in requests for tests, namely PCR tests and also antigen tests, for the 21st, 22nd and 23rd from December “the president of the clinical diagnosis network told Lusa.
For Luís Menezes, this situation shows that “people see the evidence as a way to create an additional safeguard”, in addition to the measures indicated by the Government.
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Covid-19 was responsible for 95.3% of the increase in deaths in November
More than 95% of the increase in deaths that occurred in Portugal between November 2 and 29 was due to deaths from covid-19, reveal data published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which were based on the average of last five years.
In the last four weeks (November 2 to 29), there were more deaths in 2009 than the average, in the same period of 2015-2019, says the INE, indicating that 1915 of these deaths were caused by covid-19, which represents 95.3% of the increase observed in this period.
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Costa suggests January 5 to start vaccination in the EU
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa called on Friday, during the European summit, that all the member states of the European Union initiate vaccination campaigns simultaneously, to guarantee group immunity “at the EU level.”
“I suggested that we could try to coordinate the effort so that we could all start the same day with the vaccination process. To have group immunity across the EU, it is not enough for one country to achieve that group immunity, it is an effort that has to be carried out simultaneously in all States, and the best way for all of us to do it in a coordinated way is to be able to get everyone out at the same time, ”António Costa stressed to journalists after the European Council summit.
