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This Saturday Portugal counts more than 293 deaths and 12,435 new cases of covid-19, according to the daily balance of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 12,179 deaths and 711,018 cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with 179,939 active cases this Saturday, 1,872 less than in relation to Friday.
With 293 more deaths related to covid-19, Portugal surpassed 5,000 deaths in January alone, according to the Directorate General of Health (DGS).
Regarding hospitalizations, the DGS reveals that 6,544 people are hospitalized in the ward, less 83, and 843 in intensive care, 37 more than on Friday.
The health authorities have 225,365 contacts under surveillance.
The General Directorate of Health it also reveals that another 14,014 cases were reported to have been recovered. Since the start of the epidemic in Portugal in March, 518,900 people have recovered.
The testimony of a doctor who was hospitalized with covid-19
Dr. Isabel do Carmo was admitted to Hospital Santa Maria de Lisboa for 10 days, after having been infected by SARS-CoV-2.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, he says that he must have contracted the virus at Christmas, when he met relatives. “We were six adults and three children,” he says.
Isabel do Carmo considers that the confinement is “imperative” at this time and, as such, all contacts should be avoided because, as she says, no one guarantees when or how people are infected.
“What brought me to the hospital was having a persistent fever. I had prostration, I felt very bad, I had diarrhea. And at the health center they told me that I really had to be hospitalized, “he recalls.
When she entered the covid call, she underwent tests, including a CT scan, and a health professional told her that her lungs, “from top to bottom and on both sides,” were completely “infiltrated.”
Dr. Isabel do Carmo says that she will be forever with “enormous admiration” for what is happening inside hospitals.
It reveals that, despite what can be said, the fatigue of health professionals and the “chaos” that is often said “out there”, inside hospitals things are very well organized, complying with protocols and always doing as much as possible to treat each patient.
WHO gives new instructions for the treatment of patients with covid
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new instructions for the treatment of patients with covid-19.
WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris says patients at home should measure oxygen levels so that it is possible to tell whether those at home are getting better or worse and need hospital care.
“We suggest the use of anticoagulants in low doses to avoid the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels,” he emphasizes.
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