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There are 32 new cases of covid-19 that have been registered, in recent days, in the municipality of Viseu, the municipality announced. Six are hospitalized and two are in intensive care.
According to a source from the mayor’s office, the cases are in the community. Since the start of the pandemic, the municipality has registered 184 people diagnosed with the disease.
Also in the municipality of Moimenta da Beira there is another confirmed case of covid-19. Since the start of the pandemic, 17 people have been infected, with only two active cases. But, according to the municipality of Moimenta da Beira, neighboring municipality of Sernancelhe, in the last hours people who have been in contact with the infected have been tested and, therefore, there may be a significant increase in the coming days.
In the Viseu district, since the beginning of the pandemic, 901 cases have been registered. As Jornal do Centro had advanced earlier this week, there are more than 400 people in quarantine.
And this Wednesday was the day it was known that Portugal registered the largest increase in the number of new daily cases of covid-19 (646) since April 20, the day that 657 new infections were reported by the new SARS coronavirus. -CoV-2.
In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered three more deaths related to covid-19 and 646 new cases of infection, in a total of 61,541 cases since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, adds the DGS daily report on the epidemiological situation in the country. .
In relation to Tuesday, the number of new cases doubled, from 249 to 646, the highest value since April 20, when 657 new infections were registered, out of a total of 20,863 infected.
Higher values were only found during the period of the state of emergency when the barrier of one thousand new cases per day was exceeded, that is, on March 31 (1,035) and on April 10, when the highest value was reached. always high: 1,516 new infections.
Portugal entered a situation of calamity on May 3 due to the pandemic, after three consecutive periods in a state of emergency since March 19.
Since July 1, the country has entered a state of alert, with the exception of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, which remains in a state of contingency.
As of September 15, “the entire country will be in a state of contingency” so that the necessary measures can be defined “in each area to prepare for the return to school and the return of many Portuguese to their places of work,” according to the minister. The presidency.
In Portugal, on March 2, the first confirmed case of covid-19 was notified. Since then, 61-541 confirmed cases and 1,849 deaths have been reported.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 898,503 deaths and infected more than 27.6 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
