Portugal now registers 16 more deaths associated with covid-19 and 6,334 infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as well as a new increase in hospital admissions, indicates the General Directorate of Health (DGS).

The daily epidemiological bulletin of the DGS registers an increase in the number of hospitalized people, totaling 914 admissions today, 36 more than on Sunday, and 150 in intensive care units, less one in the last 24 hours.

Active cases increased again in the last 24 hours, totaling 105,614, 3,895 more than on Sunday, and 2,423 people recovered from the disease, bringing the national total of recoveries to 1,161,615.

Of the 16 deaths, five occurred in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, six in the Center, three in the North and two in the Algarve.

Lisbon and Vale do Tejo continues to be the region with the most new cases diagnosed in the last 24 hours, with a total of 3,193, about half of the new infections, followed by the North (2043), the Center (491), Madeira ( 230), the Algarve (198), the Alentejo (124) and the Azores (55).

Compared to the previous day, health authorities have over 3,492 contacts under surveillance, totaling 127,669 people.

According to data from the DGS, the majority of daily deaths continue to be registered among the elderly over 80 years old, with a total of nine, followed by the age group from 70 to 79, with four registered deaths, with two deaths still occurring among between 60 and 65 years old and one between 50 and 59 years old.

The greatest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic is concentrated among the elderly over 80 years old (12,265), followed by the age groups between 70 and 79 years old (4,085) and between 60 and 69 years old ( 1,734).

The largest number of new diagnosed cases is in the age group between 20 and 29 years (1,459), followed by the groups between 40 and 49 years (1,189), between 30 and 39 years (1,121), between 50 and 59 years (769), between 10 and 19 years old (756), up to 9 years old (385), from 60 to 69 years old (420), from 70 to 79 years old (142) and of the elderly over 80 years old (93).

Since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, the region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo has registered 496,150 cases and 7,951 deaths.

In the North region there were 473,136 infections and 5,760 deaths and the Central region now has a cumulative total of 184,045 infections and 3,347 deaths.

The Algarve has a total of 56,407 infections and 575 deaths and the Alentejo has 45,950 cases and 1,086 deaths due to covid-19.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Autonomous Region of Madeira has 19,164 infections and 120 deaths, and the Azores archipelago 11,267 cases and 51 deaths.

The regional authorities of the Azores and Madeira publish their data daily, which may not coincide with the information published in the DGS bulletin.

Incidence exceeds 800 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

The number of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus rose to 804.3 cases per 100,000 population and the transmissibility index (Rt) also registered a large increase, rising to 1.23, according to official data today.

According to the bulletin on the pandemic in Portugal released today by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), a national incidence rate rose, since Friday, from 630.8 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants to 14 days for the current 804.3.

Only continental Portugal, this indicator also registered an increase, from 633.1 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants to 807.4.

The Rt – which estimates the number of secondary cases of infection in each person carrying the virus – also rose, both nationally and on the continent, from 1.07 (national) and 1.06 (continent) to 1.23 .

The Rt data and the incidence of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants within 14 days – indicators that make up the risk matrix for monitoring the pandemic – are produced by health authorities on Monday, Wednesday and Friday .

Covid-19 has caused more than 5.40 million deaths worldwide since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report by Agence France-Presse.

In Portugal, since March 2020, 18,890 people have died and 1,286,119 cases of infection have been recorded, according to data from the General Directorate of Health.

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.

A new variant, an Omicron, considered of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been detected in southern Africa, but since the South African health authorities raised the alert on 24 November, infections have been reported in at least 110 countries. , being already dominant in Portugal.

C / Lusa and DGS

2021-12-27