Portugal with 49 more deaths and 27,916 new cases of covid-19
There are 27,916 more infections and 49 deaths in Portugal due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 24 hours, according to this Monday’s epidemiological bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
There are 72 more people hospitalized, for a total of 2,469. In intensive care units there are 160 people, the same number as the day before.
In the epidemiological bulletin, another 39,596 recovered patients are registered, totaling 2,033,747 recovered since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the 24 hours 7 were found in 63 contacts plus 8, which are now a total of 7. 586,150 cases are active, 11,729 less cases than on Sunday.
Since March 2020, 2,639,802 people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 19,905 deaths associated with covid-19 have been declared.
INCIDENCE BEAT NEW MAXIMUM
The risk matrix was updated, this Monday, by the DGS, giving an account of a new maximum in insufficiency. Nationally, the incidence is now 6836.6 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants (was 6130.9 in the last update) and 6848.7 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants on the continent (was 6108.7).
As for the transmission index (Rt) – which estimates the number of cases of secondary transmission resulting from each person carrying the virus – there was a slight decrease compared to the update. Nationally it is now 1.13 (was 1.16) and 1.14 on the mainland (was 1.17).
Data from Rt and the probability of new cases per 100 million inhabitants for 14 days – indicators that Friday and the risk matrix for monitoring the pandemic – are updated by the health authorities, on Wednesday.
Portugal moved this to the third in the European Union with the most new daily contagion by SARS-CoV-2 and from fifth to fourth in the world, according to the statistical website Our world in data.
According to data updated on Monday, the member state with the highest average of new infections per million inhabitants in seven days is Denmark, with 7,760, followed by Slovenia (6,790) while Portugal has an average of 5,480 cases, compared to 4,730 last Monday.
At a global level in this indicator, and considering only countries and territories with more than one million inhabitants, at the top of the list is Israelwith a daily average of 9,500 new cases, followed by Denmark, Slovenia and Portugal.
The European average on this indicator rose this week from 2,570 to 2,810, while the world average dropped from 417 to 416.
As for the average number of deaths attributed to covid-19, it rose this week in Portugal from 3.7 to 4, budget above the European averagewhich this week rose from 3.7 to 3.9.
The member state with the highest average of seven-day deaths is Croatia, with 12.9, followed by Bulgaria, with 10.2, followed by Greece (10.1). ONE European average in this indicator is at 3.9 and the world at 1.1.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (14.2), Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece and Georgia (8.7) are the countries with more than one million inhabitants that have the highest averages of deaths attributed to covid-19 worldwide in the last seven days.