Portugal reported seven deaths and 193 covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

The Directorate-General for Health (DGS) registered 1 071 307 infections by covid-19, which are associated with 18 thousand deaths, since the beginning of the pandemic in Portugal, with 193 cases and seven deaths reported in the last 24 hours.

Most new infections were registered in the North region (plus 53). This is followed by Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (51 more), Alentejo (38), Centro (29), Algarve (11), Madeira (eight) and Azores (three).

In hospitals, there are nine more inpatients. Of the total of 351 bedridden people, 68 are analyzed as serious, one less than on Sunday.

Regarding deaths, four were registered in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, two in the North and one in the Center. The fatal victims are a man aged between 40 and 49 years old, a man and a woman aged between 70 and 79 years old and two men and two women over 80 years old.

Monday is the risk matrix day, the core scheme that registers the incidence rate and the transmissibility index and that, for a few months, is a guidance service for government confinement measures.

an incident dropped from 101.7 to 94.3 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per 100,000 population nationwide from Friday to today. Discounting as islands, the drop was from 103 to 95.1.

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