Portugal meets the peak of the current wave of the pandemic: infections and deaths in the coming weeks – Portugal
Portugal is reaching the peak of the current wave of the pandemic and, in the coming weeks, there will be a reduction in infections, hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19, an estimate by the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
“ORR picot of the transmissibility of the virus) and the index is already approaching 1 average geometry at seven days, which indicates that the peak of the possibility, the report is already being reached”, IST pandemic monitoring working group that Lusa had access.
According to cases, the document prepared by Pedro Amaral, José Rui Serro and Ana Serro, which defines the national working group of the IST, Rogério Colaço, has a coordination rate at the Oliveira de Oliveira level of 0%, which is close to 0% , which is close to 0%, which is close to 0%, which is close to 0% indicates that Portugal is going through the peak of insufficiency.
According to these experts, the peak of the incidence reached a real value of 130,000 to 150,000 infections, of which “were less visible than 60,000 (an average of seven days) per test saturation”, the IST study of the University of Lisbon.
“In February, the trend will be a gradual decrease in incidence, which will then estimate the STI, which also predicts that in the coming days there will still be a slight increase in hospitalizations and deaths of “due to inertia”, which should begin to reduce from the end of next week.
The working group on hold of 2,500 patients in the ward for covid-1 does not wait for the 2,500 patients in the ward for covid-1, while mortality “is expected to be higher from the peak than expected delay” for the beginning of this month.
“The phase of the resident disease of covid-19 (like the flu, for example) is now approaching the steps, the next few weeks will be the drop in the number of cases and, by advancement, of all indicators”, he also indicates. Technician’s report.
This pandemic monitoring group “fully confirms” an earlier prediction that, due to people vaccinated and those infected in February, “after the end of the pandemic” SARS-CoV-2.
According to the same data, from the age of 80 onwards, it is stable, with values around 4.5%, which shows that “the effort of older age continues to have an effect on the age group”.
The experts for the last time still that, the last report of January 25, “there was a reduction of the pandemic risk”, the indicator of evaluation of the doctors prepared by the IST (OM) to Wednesday-Wednesday for the IST value of 91.78, below the critical threshold of 100 points.
According to these institutions, which combine the probability, the transmissibility, the unit of care in wards, exceed 100 points, the health response in other people with other diseases begins to lag.
“The probability of returning to 1 critical points (alarm level) in February is close to 40%, with descent delays.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,686,108 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse.
In Portugal, since March 2020, 20,024 people have died and 2,745,383 cases of infection have been recorded, according to the latest update from the Directorate-General for Health.
The Ómicron variant that spreads and suffers from the world quickly, became since the first time, in November, South Africa.