Fewer cases and deaths from covid-19 in Portugal
Portugal recorded, between 4 and 10 October, 670 infections by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, 36 deaths associated with covid-19 and an increase in this increase in hospitalizations, indicated on Friday by the Directorate General for Health (DGS).
According to the weekly epidemiological bulletin of the DGS, compared to the previous week, there were 8017 fewer cases of infection, with nine deaths even less in the comparison between the two periods.
As for hospital occupancy in mainland Portugal by covid-19, the DGS released on Fridays the data on hospitalizations referring to the Monday before the publication of the report.
Based on this last determination, the bulletin indicates that, on Monday, 420 people were hospitalized, 25 more than on the same day of the previous week, with 28 patients in intensive care units, plus eight.
According to the DGS bulletin, the seven-day insufficiency was, on Monday, at 66 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, having registered a reduction of 54% compared to the previous week, the transmissibility index (Rt) of the coronavirus. dropped to 0.65.
In the government decided not to change the change in the situation of changing the amendment of 2 changes of laws, decision enacted without changing the change in the population base and consequent decision to change the change in the population base and consequent decision on the indicators”, said the DGS and the Ricardo Jorge Institute (INSA).
In addition, make isolation mandatory, 9 tests are mandatory, for example, 24 and the co-payment of other examples, similar to other recommendations and complementary means of diagnosis.
By region, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo recorded 2301 cases between October 4th and 10th, 3178 less than in the previous period, and 16 deaths, less one.
The Central region accounted for 1065 cases (minus 1405) and six (minus four deaths) and the North totaled 1825 cases of infection (minus 2509) and eight deaths (minus one).
In Alentejo there were 342 positive cases (minus 318) and one death (minus one) and in the Algarve there were 444 infections by SARS-CoV-2 (minus 490) and two deaths (minus three).
As for the autonomous regions, the Azores had 200 new infections in the last seven days (minus 24) and one death (plus one), while Madeira recorded 583 in this period (minus 93) and two deaths, the same number as the previous week, of according to DGS data.
According to the report, the age group between 60 and 69 years old presented the highest number of cases within seven days (1274), followed by people between 70 and 79 years old (1271), while children up to 9 years old were the group with the fewest infections this week (188).
Of the total admissions, 157 were elderly over 80 years old, followed by the age group from 70 to 79 years (108) and from 60 to 69 years (56).
The DGS also recorded nine admissions in the age group of children up to 9 years old, three from 10 to 19 years old, 10 from 20 to 29 years old, 16 from 30 to 39 years old, 14 from 40 to 49 years old and 27 from 50 to 59 years old. .
The bulletin mentions that, in these seven days, 29 elderly people over 80 years old, four people between 70 and 79 years old and three between 60 and 69 years old died.
The data shows that more than 5% of the elderly over 580 years of age are still 580 years old, seasonality against covid-19 is still 20%, a value that drops in the group already among the 59 years old to about 2%.