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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) announced this Thursday the existence of 1,852 deaths and 62126 Covid-19 cases in Portugal since the start of the pandemic.
The death toll rose from 1,849 to 1,852, 3 more than on Wednesday.
The number of infected people increased from 61,541 to 6,2126, 585 more.
35,181 contacts remain under surveillance, 30 more than on Wednesday.
In Lisbon region and Tagus Valley 239 new cases were reported, representing 31,802 and 239 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
A northern region today 268 more cases are registered, now totaling 22,593, with 852 deaths.
In Central region, another 50 cases were observed in the last 24 hours, totaling 5,094 infections and 254 deaths, according to data from the General Directorate of Health.
HE Alentejo recorded an additional 15 infections with SARS-Cov-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 disease, now totaling 1,036 cases and 22 deaths.
According to the data, the region of Algarve today there are 6 more cases, totaling 1,192 infections and 17 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The Autonomous Community of Azores reported one more case, adding a total of 229 infections and 15 deaths.
In Madeira There were 6 more cases of infection, representing 174 Covid-19 infections and no deaths.
The report on the epidemiological situation in Portugal also indicates that 157 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, totaling 43,441 people who have reportedly recovered since the start of the pandemic.
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, between 20 and 59 years the record of most infections.
In total, the new coronavirus affected at least 28,017 men and 34,109 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 932 were men and 920 women.
The pandemic has already caused more than 900 thousand deaths worldwide
The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed more than 900,000 people around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
Since the appearance of the first cases in China in December, there have been a total of 900,052 deaths worldwide and 27,711,866 reported cases. Latin America and the Caribbean are the most affected regions, with 300,340 deaths, ahead of Europe (219,616).
More than half of the deaths from covid-19 worldwide were registered in four countries: the United States (190,478), Brazil (127,464), India (73,890) and Mexico (68,484).
The suspension of clinical trials of the vaccine being developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in conjunction with the University of Oxford was motivated by an inflammation in the spine of one of the volunteers, the executive director of the British company revealed today.
AstraZeneca suspended the last phase of testing earlier this week after one of the volunteers suffered an adverse effect. The patient suffers from “Symptoms associated with rare inflammation of the spinal cord”.
Speaking to Reuters, Pascal Soriot also said that by the end of the year it will be possible to know whether the vaccine under development is in fact effective against Covid-19 as clinical trials will resume shortly.
Laboratories around the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. There are dozens of teams testing various candidate vaccines, some more advanced and promising, but scientists caution that none should be ready before the end of this year or even next.
According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (which has a graph showing the progress of the experiments) there are 239 projects and 8 are in the clinical trial phase, which consists of inoculating the vaccine in thousands of volunteers to determine if it really prevents infection.
Despite the now-suspended clinical trial, the project between Oxford University and AstraZeneca is one of the most promising, to which Pfizer and BioNTech, gives Modern and various Chinese projects, namely the CanSinoBIO who has already obtained authorization to administer the vaccine to Chinese military personnel.
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