Portugal with four more deaths and 604 cases of covid-19
Portugal now registers over 604 new confirmed cases of covid-19 and four deaths from the disease, as well as another 243 recovered people and fewer admissions to wards and intensive care units, according to the official bulletin.
According to epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General of Health (DGS), the 604 new cases raise the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,085,138, and the four deaths raise the total to 18,133.
Like four deaths were registered in the North (2), Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (1) and Algarve (1) regions.
O total admissions it dropped to 269, five fewer than on Saturday, with 52 people admitted to intensive care units (ICU), three fewer than on Saturday.
there is now 31,312 active cases, 357 more than on Saturday, and 243 more people recovered from the illness, bringing the total to 1,035,693. Contacts under surveillance are now less than 274, with a total of 20,803.
Most new cases of covid-19 confirmed in the last 24 hours are concentrated in the regions of Lisbon and Tagus Valley (226), North (160) and Center (131). The Alentejo registered 13 more cases, the Algarve 47 more. The number of new cases in Madeira and Azores was, respectively, 14 and 13.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, they have been infected in Portugal 501,893 men and 582,502 women, with 743 cases of gender to be identified that occur under investigation by the health authorities, since the communication of these data is not automatic.
the pandemic already caused the death of 9,511 men and 8,622 women, mostly in the age group above 80 years old.
An incidence rate in the country is now 86.1 cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 per 100,000 inhabitants, being 86.5 if only the continent is considered. OR
covid-19 provoked at least 4,941,032 deaths worldwide, out of more than 243.27 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report by Agence France-Presse, released on Friday.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.