Red lines: mortality from covid-19 increased by 25% week in Portugal
Mortality from covid-19 mortality increased by 25% in a week, now at 25.5 deaths per million inhabitants, a historic milestone value by the European Center for Disease Control, warns the risk analysis of the pandemic.
“On January 12, the specific one for covid-19 registered a mortality value of 25.5 deaths in 14 days per one million inhabitants, which corresponds to an increase of 25% compared to the last report”, indicate as ‘lines red ‘ from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) and the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) released this Friday.
According to the report, this mortality figure may indicate “a reversal of the stable trend that has been confirmed, given that there has been a progressive increase in the number of daily deaths in the last week”.
Regarding the number of people with covid-19 Intensive Intensive Care Units (ICU), the health authorities installed that registered a stable season, corresponding to 64% of the defined critical value of 255 beds.
According to the DGS and INSA, the age group with the highest number of cases of covid-19 hospitalized in the ICU is between 60 and 79 years old, but there has been a stable stability since the last weeks of November.
As a “red line”, it also adds that the classification of weeks with a positive result in the last seven days was 14.0%, when it had been 10.6% in the previous one, a value that is above the 4% threshold and with a tendency growing.
The total number of Covid-19 screening tests carried out in the last seven days was more than 1.6 million.
The risk analysis of the pandemic also advances that the number of infections by SARS-CoV-2, per 100,000 inhabitants accumulated in the last 14 days, was 4036 cases, with an increasing trend nationwide and in all regions of the country.
“There is an increasing trend of cumulative incidence at 14 days in all age groups. The age group with cumulative incidence at 14 days corresponded further below to 20 and 29 years, with 681 cases, with 681 thousand inhabitants”, referred to as “red lines”.
The national transmission index (Rt) is at 1.19 at the national level, with the North region presenting the highest value in this indicator (1.23).
“The analysis of the different indicators reveals an epidemiological activity of SARS-CoV-2 of very high intensity, with an increasing trend at the national level. Mortality in health services is higher”, the document.
Given the rapid increase in health, even taking into account the “probable lower severity of Ómicron variation, an increase in pressure on the entire health system and in mortality is expected, which makes the risk analysis recommend the maintenance of all circumstances such as individual measures and intensification of protective protection.