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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) announced in the daily bulletin this Tuesday that there are 62 more deaths and 3,817 new cases of Covid-19 in Portugal. In total, the country has 3,021 deaths and 187,237 infected with the new coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, there are less 9 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Units, totaling 382.
Regarding hospital admissions, 2,742 people are hospitalized, 91 more than on Monday.
DGS reveals that 77,338 contagion cases are active, 1,040 less than on Monday. Also in the last 24 hours, 4,795 people were recovered, a total of 106,878 since the start of the pandemic.
Health officials now have 90,063 people under surveillance, down from 25 in the last 24 hours.
With regard to the 3,817 new cases, 2,663 are registered in the north, 736 in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, 290 in the Center region, 41 in Alentejo, 57 in the Algarve, 21 in the Azores and 9 in Madeira.
Of the 62 deaths that are lamented in the last 24 hours, 31 occurred in the North, 17 in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, 11 in the Center and 3 in Alentejo.
DATA BY GENDER AND AGE RANGE
Confirmed cases are distributed in all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years.
The new coronavirus has already infected at least 84,792 men and 102,443 women in Portugal, according to reported cases.
Of the total deaths, 1,552 were men and 1,469 women.
The highest number of deaths is still concentrated in people over 80 years old, but in the last 24 hours two people between 40 and 49 years old have died.
First night of curfew
Among the measures in force in the 121 municipalities with the most cases of covid-19 is the prohibition of driving on public roads between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. from Monday to Friday and, during the next two weekends, from 1:00 p.m.
In Lisbon, the first night of the curfew, the streets were almost deserted. Security forces monitor compliance, including on public transport.
Costa says it is not possible to contain the pandemic “without disturbing people’s lives”
António Costa assured, in an interview with TVI, that it is impossible to control the pandemic without “disrupting people’s lives and the economy” and that the country, as happened in Europe, did not expect a second wave so soon.
THE SECOND VACANCY FOR THE AUTUMN-WINTER PASSION IS EXPECTED
“Everyone anticipated that it would arrive from fall to winter, nobody thought it would arrive so early. That’s clear. Now, if you ask me if I am surprised by this important amount of broadcasts in the community, I am very surprised “, he is stressed.
This Tuesday, the prime minister rejected the idea that the government did not prepare the country for the second wave, defending on Twitter that there are now more means of care and more health professionals.
“GO OUT, BUT SAFELY”
Regarding restrictive measures, it explains that it is very difficult to say what the balance point is, asking the Portuguese to leave home, but safely.
See here the new measures of the state of emergency and its exceptions.
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