Covid-19 in Portugal maintains a high disability – Coimbra News
Covid-19 Portugal maintains a lower difficulty, although with an increasing trend, the number of hospitalizations and mortality associated with the disease also tends to decrease, according to the weekly epidemiological situation monitoring report today.
The report, prepared by technicians from the Directorate-General for Health and the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, highlights that epidemiological surveillance must be maintained due to covid19, recommending “the maintenance of individual protection measures, action against the population of frequent communication”.
According to the document, which dates from Wednesday and is released weekly, all occurrences show an increasing trend at national level, with the exception of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, which showed an increasing trend.
The number of new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, accumulated in the last seven days, was 191 cases.
The BA.5 lineage of the Ómicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (which causes covid-19) remains “clearly dominant” in Portugal, accounting for 97% of infections in the week between July 25 and July 31 .
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The transmissibility index (Rt) remains below 1 across the country – with the exception of the Autonomous Region of the Azores – indicating a trend towards an increase in new infections.
The specific mortality by covid-19 is located at 12, 6 deaths in 14 days per one million inhabitants, with a decreasing trend.
“All-cause mortality is above the upper bound of the expected value for the time of year,” the report notes.
The number of hospital admissions in intensive care units (ICU) in the mainland showed an increasing trend, “corresponding to 16.9% of the defined critical value of 255 occupied beds”.
The ratio between the number of hospitalized and infected people was 0.22, indicating “a lower severity of the infection, similar to what has been observed since the beginning of 2022″.
On August 8, 43 patients were admitted to the ICU, with the age group from 60 to 79 years old, with the highest number of cases (24).
The percentage of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 observed between August 2nd and August 8th was increasing by 20.7%, with a decreasing trend, as was the number of tests carried out compared to the previous period, having carried out 11,054 fewer tests .
Between March 3, 2020 and August 8, 2022, Portugal totaled 5,367,273 cases of infection, of which 348,547 are suspected to be reinfections, that is, 6.5% of cases.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease that became a pandemic on March 11, 2020, after SARS-CoV-2, detected in late 2019 in China, quickly spread around the world.
In Portugal, the first two cases were confirmed on March 2, 2020.