Covid-19 in Portugal: ten deaths and 2333 cases. Admissions continue to rise | Coronavirus
This Friday, there were ten more deaths due to covid-19 and 2,333 cases in Portugal, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) released this Saturday.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has 1,119,784 confirmed infections and 18,310 you kill you kill.
It is the fourth consecutive day with more than two million cases registered in Portugal. The record released in this Saturday’s bulletin is 35% higher than the previous Saturday, when 1751 new discoveries were identified. In addition, and maintaining a trend that has continued in recent weeks, this is the report released on Saturday with the most cases since August 27 (2370 identified).
The situation report indicates that there are 544 people hospitalized, 16 more than the day before, with nine more in intensive care (total of 88). The total number of admissions increases consecutively for 14 consecutive days.
Another 1581 people have been recovered, thus increasing the total number of recoveries to 1,058,461. This means that 94.5% of cases have recovered from the disease. Excluding recoveries and deaths, there are currently 43,013 clinical cases considered (742 more than the day before), around 3.8% of identified cases. The fatality rate is at 1.64%.
Lisbon and Vale do Tejo concentrate the majority of cases on Fridays, with 855 in 24 hours, followed by the North Region, with 633. These two regions concentrate close to two thirds of those identified this Friday (63.8%). 430 cases were also identified in the Centre, 167 in the Algarve, 127 in the Alentejo, 94 in Madeira and 27 in the Azores.
With regard to deaths, four took place in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, adding two more deaths in the north, another two in the Centre, one in the Algarve and one in Madeira.
Six of the ten deaths were of people aged 80 years or more (three women and three men), with three deaths of people between 70 and 79 years old (one woman and two men) and one woman in the 60 age group. at 69 years old.
The risk matrix indicators, which are used to assess the advance or retreat of deconfinement, are only updated in bulletins on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. In the most recent matrix, the transmissibility index – R