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POrtugal this Tuesday exceeded 400 thousand cases of contagion with the new coronavirus since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the DGS bulletin, the country registered 74 more deaths related to the disease and 3,336 new cases.
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 6,751 deaths and 400,002 cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with 65,457 active today, 2,850 less than Monday (and the lowest balance since November 4).
It should be noted that today is the third day of vaccination against Covid-19 in the country.
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11:20 pm – In social networks there are some images of ambulances outside the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in England, supposedly with patients inside, waiting for a place to enter.
Leaving a & e after another loooong day … Almost all these ambulances are waiting With patients inside them For more than 3 hours Because there is no place in the hospital to bring them … #hospitable#birmingham #qehb # COVID-19 #nobeds pic.twitter.com/XTn9SG2HnM
– Punith Kempegowda (@drpunith) December 29, 2020
23h08 – First case of new strain of coronavirus detected in the United States. The health authorities of the North American state of Colorado on Tuesday registered the first known case of a person infected with the new variant of the new coronavirus in the country. This is a 20-year-old man who is currently isolated in Elbert County and who will not have left the country, according to a Twitter post from Colorado Governor Jared Polis. “The individual has no identified close contacts so far, but health officials are working to identify other potential cases and other contacts through detailed screening interviews,” he says.
Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK.
The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority and we will monitor this case, as well as all COVID-19 indicators, very closely. pic.twitter.com/fjyq7QhzBi
– Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) December 29, 2020
22h39 – Brazil with 58 thousand new cases and the highest number of deaths since September 15. This Tuesday, the Brazilian Ministry of Health reported another 5,718 cases of infection with a new coronavirus, a considerable increase compared to the previous day (20,548). The total number of confirmed cases in the country, as of February 26, is now 7,563,551, according to the Health Ministry website.
22h01 – The vaccination campaign in the United States “does not meet” expectations. The president-elect of the United States, Democrat Joe Biden, today criticized the administration of the outgoing president, Republican Donald Trump, for the delay in vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, considering that it is “very short” than expected. .
9:42 p.m. – Madeira registers 60 more new cases. Madeira currently registers another 60 new cases of covid-19, 11 of which are imported and 40 of local transmission, which brings the number of infected to 1,620, revealed the Regional Health Directorate (DRS).
9:15 pm – António Costa signs budget referendum that “fights the pandemic”. The prime minister today signed the ministerial referendum on the Law that approves the State Budgets for 2021, which hours before had been promulgated by the President of the Republic.
20h35 – In three days, 16,701 health professionals have already been vaccinated. In Portugal this Tuesday the third day of the Vaccination Plan against Covid-19 was completed, having already vaccinated 16,701 health professionals, until 6 in the afternoon, revealed the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, in a situation carried out today.
20h20 – After receiving the vaccine, Kamala Harris asks for everyone to be vaccinated. The vice president-elect of the United States, Democrat Kamala Harris, received the first of two doses of the Modern vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Washington today and asked all Americans to do the same.
Today I received the COVID-19 vaccine. I am so grateful to our front-line healthcare workers, scientists, and researchers who made this moment possible.
When you can get the vaccine, do so. It’s about saving lives. pic.twitter.com/T5G14LtFJs
– Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 29, 2020
20h15 – Home vaccination begins next week in 25 counties. Vaccination against Covid-19 in nursing homes will begin next week in 25 counties with an extremely high risk level, where 150 structures have been identified, the Minister of Health announced today.
20h11 – France registers more than 11 thousand new cases and studies new measures. France registered 11,395 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours and the Government encourages additional measures in the most affected regions, such as the extension of the curfew, according to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
20h10 – Variants of the virus can generate “greater pressure from health systems“. The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) considered today that there is a high risk that the identified variants of SARS-Cov-2, which causes the disease Covid-19, put additional pressure on health systems .
19:10 – US demands release of journalist who wrote about Wuhan outbreak. The head of US diplomacy today demanded that China release the independent journalist sentenced to prison after writing about the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan and accused Beijing of wanting to hide the scope of the pandemic.
18:15 – Aveiro resident wants to join the community on New Year’s Eve at the window. Almost a thousand people have already responded to an event on the social network Facebook that aims to gather the people of Aveiro in the windows or balconies of their houses to count until the end of 2020, creating “the biggest New Year’s Eve in Aveiro”.
18h14 – DGS ensures that home vaccination will follow “transparent criteria”. The Director General of Health, Graça Freitas, assured today that the vaccination process against Covid-19 in nursing homes will follow “transparent criteria” and that people will not have to wait long.
18h13 – The vaccination process has been carried out in an “exemplary” manner, guarantees the Government. The regional coordinator of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo for Covid-19 today considered the start of the vaccination process “exemplary” and estimated that at the end of February workers and users of residential structures would be vaccinated.
5:46 p.m. – Spain reports 320 more deaths and 14,000 new cases of infection. The Spanish Ministry of Health reports, this Tuesday, an increase of 14,089 cases of contagion to the total balance, being that 7,848 cases were registered in the last 24 hours. However, the authorities stress that these data may not reflect the actual evolution of the pandemic due to delays in notifications regarding the Christmas period. The health authorities have also registered the death of 320 people in the last 24 hours.
Data update # COVID-19https://t.co/zmQ0aRtV2W
Infographics and other materials about the #coronavirus: https: //t.co/dzocoyr8qR pic.twitter.com/BEBdlvhLyD
– Ministry of Health (@sanidadgob) December 29, 2020
17h23 – New variant in Portugal? INSA expects to have news in the coming days. The Ricardo Jorge Institute hopes to have in the next few days the results of the investigation it is carrying out to determine if the new variant of SARS-Cov-2 detected in the United Kingdom is circulating in mainland Portugal.
17h21 – UK Reports 53,000 New Cases, New Daily High for Infections. The United Kingdom reported another 53,135 new cases of contagion on Tuesday, a considerable increase compared to the previous day, when 41,385 infections were reported. The country thus reaches new highs in daily records two days in a row.
17:02 – The epidemiologist admits that the pandemic is out of control in the US.. The chief epidemiologist of the White House, Anthony Fauci, acknowledged today that the COVID-19 pandemic is out of control in the United States, a country with a record of hospital infections. The phase of the pandemic the United States is going through “is out of control in many ways,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN television.
16h59 – Portugal will not register who rejects the vaccine. At this time, Portugal will not register people who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the director general of Health said today, despite underlining the “enormous adherence” to the vaccination process in these first days.
16h56 – Italy reports 11,000 new cases and 659 deaths in the last 24 hours. The Italian health authorities report this Tuesday of another 11,212 new cases of infection by a new coronavirus, an increase compared to the previous day (8,585), but still below the figures reported between the end of October and the beginning. From November. Italy now has a total of 2,067,487 confirmed positive cases since the pandemic began in the country on February 21.
16h17 – The first person in the world to receive the Pfizer vaccine has already taken the second dose. Margaret Keenan, the first person in the world to be immunized against Covid-19 with the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in the UK, has already received the second dose. There are no side effects to date.
3:50 pm – “In the last two days 7,585 health professionals were vaccinated”. In Portugal, in the last two days “7,585 health professionals were vaccinated in five hospital centers”, added Graça Freitas, referring that this corresponds to “around 80% of the doses made available to these hospitals in this phase.” The official recalled that these data will already be better to date, since in the meantime more people have been vaccinated.
15h46 – Évora district with active outbreaks “in eight homes”. Eight homes in the Évora district currently have active sources of Covid-19, in a total of “more than 250” infected users, the president of the Alentejo Regional Health Administration (ARS), José Robalo, revealed today.
3:38 pm – The EU bought more than 100 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19. The news was advanced by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
We decided to take an additional 100 million doses of the #BioNTech /@Pfizer vaccine, which is already being used to vaccinate people across the EU.
Therefore, we will have 300 million doses of this vaccine, which has been evaluated as safe and effective.
More vaccines will follow!
– Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) December 29, 2020
15h25 – Follow the DGS conference here. The general director of Health, Graça Freitas, and the coordinator of the study of genetic variability SARS-CoV-2 and researcher of the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), João Paulo Gomes, update the information on Covid-19 in portugal.
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