There are almost a million people in isolation in Portugal. More 192 hospitalized | coronavirus
There are almost one million people isolated in Portugal due to the virus that causes covid-19, an increase of 0% compared to the numbers recorded last week. This Sunday, the bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health contains 489,789 people who are on active surveillance (prophylactic), which means, in total, 968,672 people who are in selected cases in homes by infected. or because you are considered to have had high-risk contact with an infected person. The number more than population and exceeded 9% of the population of some experts who on Monday estimated that Monday to January 30 has more than 400 thousand people in isolation.
On January 15th, there were 608,299 people isolated at home, 360,373 fewer than on Saturday, the 22nd.
Society numbers show the impact of the pandemic, although the reduced values of deaths and hospitalizations are compared to January 2021. The DGS has to warn about the pressure on health services. According to the most recent monitoring report of the “red lines” of the pandemic, there is an epidemic activity of “very high intensity, with a growing trend at the national level”.
This Sunday, the DGS also reported more than 30 deaths and 45,569 new cases of covid-19. It is the first time in four days that Portugal reports a lower number of cases and fewer days released on Sunday due to a lower volume of tests and fewer days of publication of results.
Currently, there are 2219 people hospitalized in Portuguese hospitals (192 more than in Saturday’s update). Of these, 160 are in intensive care.
Despite the constant increase in the number of diaries, the fact that mortality and hospitalizations do not follow the rise, lead some countries to reconsider the way in which covid-19 is monitored. Spain, for example, argues that it will soon be possible to monitor the coronavirus as you do with the flu. The British Government has already announced that, starting next week, some emergency measures, such as the use of masks in transport, will fall.
North maintains the largest number of new
Regarding the bulletin referring to Saturday’s numbers: the largest number of new cases was registered in the region dthe North (10 deaths and 20,549 cases). The Lisbon and Tagus Valley region has the highest number of deaths (16 deaths and 13,303 new cases). The Central region totals more 6954 cases and two deaths The Alentejo already account for 1337 new cases and one more death. In the Algarve, there are more than 1716 cases and one death.
Madeira registers 1005 new cases of infection and the Azores add up more 705 cases.
of the Of the 19,569 people who have died of covid-19 in Portugal to date, 12,658 (almost 65%) were over 80 years old (5836 men and 6822 women). Of the total deaths recorded since March 2020: 10295 are men and 9274 are women.
Evolution of new daily cases
Portugal remains in the red quadrant of the risk matrix that monitors the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the country. This means that the probability tends to rise.
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