Covid19: pandemic with stable trend Islands and Lisbon region- are exceptional
The weekly Red Lines Monitoring report, released this Friday by the Directorate-General da Saúde (SNS) and the Instituto Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), indicates a reversal of the initiative registered in recent weeks. Although indicators are still considered “very high”, the results are encouraging. The DGS weekly report says that: new cases and deaths have decreased in the last week.
In a week in which Portugal recorded the highest number of deaths associated with SARS-CoV-2 since February, the DGS weekly report gives good news. Week of May 24-30, or number of new infections from islands and islands with the exception of Lisbon regions.
Of the total of 175,766 infections (11,750 less compared to the previous week), most were registered in the regions of Lisbon (67,158), North (59,685) and Center (25,911). Further afield are the regions of Alentejo (7,236), Azores (6,376), Algarve (5,972) and Madeira (3,428).
Deaths also declined in the week under review. In the last week of May, 220 deaths were recorded (12 less than the previous week), the majority (83) in the North region.
Conversely, the number of hospitalized patients increased. At the beginning of the week there were 2,092 people hospitalized (plus 250), of which 107 (plus eight) were in Intensive Care Units (ICU).
COVID-19 Weekly Status Report of June 3, for the period between May 24 and 30.
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trend reversed pandemic
The number of new cases of infection per 100 million inhabitants accumulated in the last seven days, “was 1,707 cases, with a stable forecast at the national level”, with the exception of the islands and the region of Lisbon and Tagus Valley, which show a “trend”. growing”. In the same sense, the transmissibility index (Rt) now has a “value equal to 1 at the national level (1.00), which indicates a trend stabilization“.
Even so, there are worrying indicators: the number of patients admitted to the ICU on the mainland showed a “growing trend, corresponding to 42.0% (…) of the defined critical value of 255 occupied beds”; and also specific mortality shows “an increasing trend.
Regarding the variants, the BA.5 lineage of the Ómicron variant remains “the dominant in Portugal, registering an estimated frequency of 87% on May 30, 2022”.
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