Portugal with 151 municipalities above very high risk of infection | Covid-19
Portugal has 151 municipalities at very high and extreme risk of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, indicated this Friday by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
As last week, there are still 21 councils at extreme risk. The list of municipalities with more than 960 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days includes Fundão, Golegã, Guarda, Lisbon, Loulé, Machico, Monção, Nisa, Oeiras, Ourém, Funchal, Ponte da Barca, Porto, Porto Santo , São Brás de Alportel, São João da Madeira, Sertã, Soure, Sousel, Tomar and Vila Nova e Paiva.
There are 18 more counties at very high risk. Altogether, there are 130 municipalities, with an incidence between 480 and 959.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In addition to the 151 municipalities above the very high risk, there are currently 83 municipalities with a 14-day cumulative incidence rate between 240 and 479.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, that is, at the high risk level. With an incidence between 120 and 239.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, there are currently 32 municipalities.
The only Portuguese municipalities with processing less than 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants are now Freixo de Espada à Cinta e Corvo, which did not register any new cases in the last 14 days.
In the explanatory note of the data by municipality, published in the epidemiological bulletin of the DGS, it is mentioned that the cumulative occurrence “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”.
This Friday, Portugal reported 11 more deaths associated with covid-19 and 12,943 modifications with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the highest number of new cases since January 29, indicates a Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
An outbreak of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus rose again nationwide this Friday, rising to 630.8 cases per 100,000 population. The Transmissibility Index (Rt) rose to 1.11.