Mortality in Portugal with a decreasing trend and below the European threshold
Covid-19 in Portugal remains much more difficult, although with an increasing trend, and mortality from the disease, also tends to decrease and is below the European threshold, says this Friday the weekly report on monitoring the epidemiological situation.
The report, prepared by the Directorate-General for Health and Health and the National Institute for the Maintenance of Individual Protection (such as the use of masks), restricts resistance measures to the population. “.
According to the document, which dates from Wednesday and is released weekly, only every Friday the number of new cases of infection by 100 thousand inhabitants, accumulated in the last seven days, was 284 cases, with an increasing trend at the national level and in all regions, except for the Azores, which showed a stable trend.
The transmissibility index (Rt) is less than 1 across the country, indicating “an increasing trend of new cases”.
The specific mortality rate for covid-19 stands at 17.7 deaths in 14 days per one million inhabitants, with a “growing trend”, but is associated in part with an excess of all-cause mortality compared to expected values. for the time of year.
“This value is below the threshold of 20 deaths in 14 days per 1,000,000 inhabitants, defined by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC)”, indicates the document.
The report reveals that the number of admissions to intensive care units on the mainland tends to be stable, “corresponding to 21.2% of the defined critical value of 255 occupied beds”.
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”.