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The situation report published this afternoon by the General Directorate of Health divides municipalities into seven risk levelsAccording to the indications of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control: level 1, the lowest, is assigned to municipalities with less than 20 cases in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants; and level 7, the highest, is reserved for municipalities with 960 or more.
In between, there are five other levels of risk. Municipalities with between 20 and 59.9 cases in the last two weeks per 100,000 inhabitants are at level two; those between 60 and 119.9 are level three; municipalities with 120 to 239.9 are level four; those between 240 and 479.9 receive level five; and those with 480 to 959.9 are level six.
However, according to the latest definition announced by the government this weekend, the country is divided into four risk levels. The municipalities of moderate risk are those that, over two weeks, registered an accumulated number of new cases below 240 per 100,000 inhabitants. It is the least serious risk level.
In high-risk counties, the cumulative number of new cases per 100,000 residents is between 240 and 479. Next, the very high-risk level, with 480 to 959 cases per 100,000 residents in the last two weeks , and the Extremely High Risk Level, where all values above 960 enter.
The difference is that, for the Portuguese government, Moderate risk municipalities are considered to be all those that, on the scale of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, fit into levels one to four.. High-risk counties correspond to level five, very high-risk counties are level six counties, and extremely high-risk counties are level seven counties.
This is what you need to know:
There is nine counties with more than 2,000 new cases accumulated in the last two weeks for every 100,000 inhabitants and only one of them is not found in the north of the country. They are Lousada, Paços de Ferreira, Vizela, Guimarães, Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Felgueiras, Penafiel, Fafe and Manteigas – the latter belongs to the Central region. The most serious situation is in Lousada, with 2,791 cases in two weeks for every 100,000 inhabitants. Fafe and Guimarães were already among the 10 most worrying municipalities for a week, but they did not have a proportion higher than 2,000 cases.
There is 10 counties without any case of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last two weeks, one more than last week. These are Calheta, Corvo, Lajes das Flores, Lajes do Pico, Madalena, Porto Moniz, Santa Cruz da Graciosa, Santana, São Vicente and Vila Velha de Ródão, the only municipality on the list that is not in the Azores archipelagos or Madeira. but in the Castelo Branco neighborhood. Last week that position was from Monchique, but this week it registered 158 cases in the last two weeks for every 100,000 inhabitants.
The municipality of Beja is the only district capital on the continent with a proportion of new cases added in two weeks for every 100,000 inhabitants below 240 – the number that indicates a less worrisome epidemiological situation. In the balance made by the health authorities last week, Leiria was the only district capital in mainland Portugal that was below that metric. On this occasion, the city has already registered 308 new cases in 14 days for every 100,000 inhabitants. Beja is at 146.
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