Covid-19 continues to gain ground in Portugal. Incidence and RT go back up
Portugal registered, in the last 24 hours, 568 cases of the new coronavirus and six deaths, according to the most recent epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS), released this Monday. The number of hospitalized people grows again in the last 24 hours, except in the Intensive Care Units. Sharp rise in the values of the incidence of cases and in the transmissibility ratio, both nationally and continentally.
The largest number of new cases is concentrated in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region – 207. The North follows with 151, the Center with 83, the Algarve with 58 and the Alentejo with 13. In the Madeira archipelago there are 43 new infections and in the Azores 13.
Of the six fatal accidents, two were registered in the North and also in the Centre, one in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and the other in Madeira.
The number of hospitalized people rose again in the last 24 hours. There are now 360 people with symptoms of covid-19 admitted to Portuguese hospitals, 19 more than yesterday. However, there was a decrease in the Intensive Care Units: there are 62 people in the ICU, two fewer than the day before.
The values of incidence and transmissibility ratio (RT) were this Monday. Both indices increased in all regions of Portugal. According to the DGS bulletin, Portugal now has an incidence of 116.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, a large increase compared to the increase of 106.1 cases reported on Friday, and mainland Portugal of 116.4, there was also a marked increase in relation to the value of 105.6.
Following the same line is RT, which rose both nationally and continentally to 1.08. On Friday, Portugal recorded a Rt 1.04 and on the mainland 1.03.
Portugal has registered, since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,098,125 cases of SARS-CoV-2, 33,852 of which remain active – another 166 – and 18,209 did not resist. In the last 24 hours, 396 people have recovered from the disease, bringing the total to 1,046,064. Currently, health authorities have 24,850 contacts under surveillance, minus 10.