Portugal with 47 deaths on Wednesday. It is the highest value since February – Observer
Portugal recorded 47 deaths from covid-19 on Wednesday, the highest number of deaths in more than 100 days, according to data from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) released this Thursday.
According to the health authority, on Wednesday, the day on which 26,848 cases of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were confirmed, 47 deaths were reported, five more than the day before.
Portugal has not recorded so many daily deaths from covid-19 since February 17, the day on which 51 deaths were reported due to the disease.
DGS figures also indicate that, in the last two months, in which the country entered the sixth wave of the pandemic, 1,455 people died from covid-19, 592 in May and 863 in May.
According to the latest report by the DGS and the Ricardo Jorge Institute, released on Friday, mortality from covid-19 in Portugal reached 41 deaths in 14 days per one million inhabitants, a figure that is about twice the double of the total. thresholds of 20 deaths defined by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC), and with an increasing trend.
“Mortality from all causes is above the expected values for the time of year”, the document advanced, which associated this situation with the “increase in specific mortality due to covid-19”.
Henrique Oliveira, a mathematician at Instituto Superior Técnico and who is part of the institution’s pandemic monitoring working group, estimates that admissions to wards and intensive care and deaths will remain the following “high until June 25, as the country must have around 200,000 infected people currently.