Covid-19. Portugal follows “decreasing” trend
“ONE Covid-19 epidemic maintains a very high incidence, although with a decreasing trend” in Portugal, according to the most recent monitoring report on the epidemiological situation of Covid-19, carried out by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) and the National Institute of Health Doutor Jorge (INSA), which advises Ricardo to maintain “personal protection measures” and “personal protection measures”.
Second the reportthis Friday released, the number of new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection per 100,000 population, accumulated in the last seven days, was 284 cases“with a decreasing trend at national level”, similarly to what has been happening in previous weeks.
It is trend is recorded “in all regions except the Autonomous Region of the Azoreswhich showed a stable trend”.
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With regard to people with Covid-19 hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU)the number revealed a “stable trend” without continent”,corresponding to 21.2% (in the previous period under analysis it was 19.2%) of the critical value set of 255 occupied beds”.
The document states that “the ratio between the number of hospitalized and infected people was 0.20, indicating a lower severity of the infection, similar to what has been observed since the beginning of 2022″.
As in the new cases, the Covid-19 specific mortality shows an “increasing trend”being 17.7 deaths in 14 days per 1,000,000 inhabitants.
“All-cause mortality is above the upper bound of the expected value for the time of year, indicating an excess of all-cause mortality, in part associated with Covid-19-specific mortality,” the report warns.
ONE BA.5 lineage of the Omicron variant “remains clear dominant in Portugal”, showing “an estimated relative frequency of 95% in week 28 (11/07/2022 to 17/07/2022)”. transmission, the response to the response is different by its evasion ability.
The communication argues that “epidemiological and maintenance measures for the Covid-19 population are maintained, measures to maintain the maintenance of restrictions on the population and measures to protect the population”.
It is from the most important cases that the data released today show that Portugal recorded 29,277 more and 72 deaths in the last week.
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