Portugal has more than 20 thousand cases of covid-19 in one day
Portugal-feira registering 20 thousand new days of covid-19 since August 15th. The data are part of the daily surveillance of the Directorate-General for Health, at a time when registered cases have increased by more than 30% per week and tests are being carried out much less than at the beginning of the year, with almost four in ten testing positive.
The World Health Organization, confirmed today, can also be associated with the circulation in the country of the New Lineage. showing signs of greater severity. According to oi, this variant, detected for the first time at the end of March in Portugal, is now becoming dominant. Portugal is still one of the countries with BA.5 cases reported to the GISA virus diversity surveillance platform, which was welcomed this week by Túlio de Oliveira, one of those responsible for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in Africa. of the South, a country where the increase in processes associated with this new strain of Omicron and another, BA.4, was first felt. Reacting to the fact that Portugal has reported 57 cases of BA.5, out of 279 officially sequenced worldwide, the researcher noted, on Twitter, that “INSA does a great job in genomic surveillance”.
A visible reflection of what is starting to be a new line-19 is the increase in the level of vacancy in the emergency department, also due to international demand and the search for difficulties in contacting the SNS24 so that an eventual test request can be passed and, then to schedule tests.
The Hospital de São João, Porto, revealed yesterday that this fair was informed that this Monday it was necessary to register admissions in the hospital’s emergency room, the only 1022 passed in one day. So far the record had been 1003 admissions in 2008.
Nelson Pereira, director of the Autonomous Unit for Emergency Management and Intensive Medicine at Centro Hospitalar de São João, spoke yesterday of an “unmeasured increase” of the worst with respiratory complaints and suspicions of covid-19, admitting that the situation may be with the festivities. of the title and the Queima das Fitas, which mobilized thousands of people. Although it is not mostly serious cases, the number of cases is explained by people who are being taken into account by the SNS24. “We have to have a coherent policy. If the disease is no longer serious and no longer has component repercussions on health services, then we have to be consistent with that decision: either we continue to think that everyone needs to be tested, so tests need to be generalized, or we cannot punish the emergency services where everything ends up”, he insists.
Urgency in unique levels of urgency for May The monitoring of urgencies in cases of emergency that the one who lives in São João is an emergency case, with high levels for the month. This Monday, when there are more people looking for emergencies, there are more than 20,000 people, which usually happens on the worst winter days. It turned out to be one of the days with the highest demand for emergency services since the beginning of the pandemic, only surpassed at the end of March. March 2, with 22,344 people in the emergency room, to the years of demand in the largest public hospitals since the beginning of the pandemic and one of the highest peaks since the beginning of the last ones.
DGS has not yet made a point of situation about homes The increase in features has been occurring in all age groups, but there has not yet been an assessment of the situation of the institutions, but there has not been an assessment of the situation of the Health institutions.
3.5 times more deaths in nine days than in May 2021 In April, as oi reported, mortality associated with covid-19 in Portugal was five times higher than in April last year. Now, the latest data from the DGS show that in the first nine days of May there were already 176 deaths associated with covid-19, 3.5 times more recorded than the 49 deaths in the entire month of May 2021.
The indication already provided for anticipating the impact of 80 with more predicted for the late summer case of an aggravation, but the serious quantification of the impact of an aggravation was not foreseen, but the serious quantification of the impact of an aggravation was not foreseen. Mortality from all causes this month has been above average for May, although on some days it is similar to what has happened in other years of higher mortality. But, for example, this Monday, with 354 deaths in the country, was the 9th of May with the most deaths in the last 14 years. Questioned by i, the Ministry of Health did not answer whether it is equated with no change to testing or any access to the privacy of the elderly.