Covid-19 | Situation in the District of Lisbon and the 5th wave (includes Mafra and Torres Vedras)
Now that the experts admit that the 5th wave has already entered Portugal, according to the report of the Directorate-General for Health for the week of 10/21/2021 to 11/03/2021, the cumulative incidence
- 14 days in the municipalities of Mafra and Torres Vedras was as follows: Mafra:
- 124 cases per 100,000 inhabitants Torres Vedras:
103 cases per 100,000 inhabitants
Among the 16 municipalities in the district of Lisbon, Mafra is the 6th municipality with the highest incidence, while Torres Vedras holds the 7th position.
The daily reports in the municipality of Mafra attributed to be released from October 1, 2021, according to the municipality due to the “reduction in the number of daily infections”. On October 3, 2021 Jornal de Mafra made the 18 month balance
of pandemic in the municipality of Mafra.
In schools in the municipality of Mafra, it was only possible to ascertain that on October 30 there were 12 active cases in the Ericeira school grouping, on November 8 there were only 2 cases (1 in Freguesia da Encarnação EB and 1 in EB / JI da Freguesia of Saint Isidore). In the municipality of Torres Vedras, the epidemiological situation reports are updated weekly and the latest update revealed84 active cases
. The outbreak at the Monte Redondo DRC Association Home had 6 active cases out of 44 confirmed.“(…)the recent data from the beginning of November, advanced an appreciable resurgence of the infection, and it is likely that we are witnessing the beginning of the 5th wave”Article published in an essay published yesterday by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon by Manuel Carmo Gomes and Carlos Antunes, professors ULisboa.nevertheless, we do not expect that COVID-19, by itself, will put pressure on the hospital system comparable to the pre-vaccination period. The vaccination boost of older people in the coming weeks, if fast enough, should compensate for the decay of the protection they provide through vaccination at the beginning of the year, allowing them to go through the winter with a low probability of contracting serious disease
. ”.
The 14-day Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 infection corresponds to the quotient between the number of new confirmed cases in the 14 days prior to the moment of analysis and the estimated resident population, by municipality, on December 31, 2020 , by the National Institute of Statistics, IP. It is usually expressed as the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants.