The DGS have reported that Portugal recorded a total of 52,549 new cases of Covid-19 and 33 deaths yesterday, January 19th. This is the highest level since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the second day in a row, Portugal hit a new maximum of new infections, with 8,820 more infections than on Tuesday, now totalling over two million infections since March 2020, when the pandemic began in Portugal.
According to the DGS epidemiological situation assessment report, there are now 356,477 infections, 1,959 patients of which are now hospitalised, with 153 of them being in intensive care units.
The 33 new deaths associated with COVID-19 since Mondays report occurred in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (15), the North region (10), in the Center (5), in Madeira (1), in the Azores (1) and in Alentejo (1).
According to DGS data, 16 of the 33 fatalities were over 80 years old, 11 were between 70 and 79 years old, four were between 60 and 69 years old and two were between 50 and 59 years old.
The data indicates that the highest number of new infections was recorded in the northern region (22,455) and in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (16,192)
The largest number of newly diagnosed infections is in the age group between 40 and 49 years old (9,454), followed by the age group of 0 and 9 years old (9,210), from 30 to 39 years old (8,514), of 10 to 19 years (8,092).
In the age group between 20 and 29 years old, 6,774 new infections were registered, in the age group between 50 and 59 years old, 5,452 were reported, between 60 and 69 years old, 2,668, between 70 and 79 years old, 1,509 and in those over 80 years, 876 were recorded.
To date, 19,413 people have died in Portugal with COVID-19.
The Algarve region has a total of 77,262 infections since the pandemic began, and 609 deaths from Covid-19.
The Rt, which estimates the number of secondary cases of infection resulting from each person carrying the virus, has been going down since January 5th and is currently recording a decrease from 1.13 nationally to 1.11 and in mainland Portugal to 1.10.
Data from Rt and the incidence of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days are updated by Portuguese health authorities on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week.
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Quoting Reg:Reg the virus was discovered end of 2019, the genetic makeup of the SARS-COV2 virus was possibly uploaded into a database by Chinese scientists beginning of 2020. The protocol for the PCR test for detecting the SARS-COV2 virus was created, if not mistake, in February 2020.
You probably mean July 2020. Even so a positive PCR test doesn't tell you if you are infected with a disease. It's a research tool not for medical diagnosis.
"Covid test in July 2019???" NO i am not mistaken! A PCR tests confirmed the Alpha virus symptoms. You don't lose your smell and taste when getting a heart attack.
With regards to the government vaccination surveillance report I suggest you read the footnote on page 35.
Covid test in July 2019??? You're surely mistaken. Reg Covid tests are highly unreliable that has been confirmed by many experts. I rather trust the expertise of a doctor that follows his/her training rather then rely on this Covid test. You are forgetting that people were sent home/nursing homes to die by hospitals (government protocol). You want to know who's clogging up hospital beds? Look at official government data. See the table on page 35
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1049160/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-3-2022.pdf
My healthy cousin died in July 2019 at home. The doctor came and said heart attack (on death certificate) daughter insisted on covid test to be carried out. Result my cousin and his wife both positive. The earlier versions of covid were much more dangerous. So how many people never made it to the hospital? I would like to know how many anti vaxxers are blocking hospital beds. I am happy to pay more into the healthcare system are you?
Well, that's the biggest laugh I've had so far today. My experts are etc... Whereas yours, Steve ... You couldn't make it up.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT04368728
The problem with your experts is that they either anonymous or TV celebrities pretending to be experts. Joe Blogs with a medical degree doesn't make him an expert on vaccines.
Quoting Reg:Staff shortages and lack of beds have nothing to do with a virus but with government mismanagement. Have you forgotten the Nightingale hospitals, or the money wasted in setting them up? A man suffering from heart disease dies of heart attack but because he tested positive before being admitted to hospital will have Covid on his death certificate. Nothing wrong with that? Or is that deliberate policy to inflate the numbers?
Quoting Reg:I don't waste time reading government propaganda.
Right. So, doctors have been told to change the way they record but there are officially only 6000 in the UK from Covid alone. Why are you moaning? Grist to your mill, I'd have thought.
Bad flu. That's why they had to have mass graves in Brazil, why hospitals had to cancel so much other stuff to cope with the influx of patients and why health staff are close to burnout. Oh, of course, absolutely all medical staff worldwide are in on this conspiracy.
Our politicians? Not sure who you mean. I haven't noticed any major controversy involving Portuguese health policy makers. Johnson and his chums, perhaps. Not my politicians, fortunately. As for their (UK politicians') shenanigans, do what I say not what I do is pretty current anywhere. Johnson's carelessness came close to killing him, if he was really ill, and we always think it'll never happen to us - until it does, a bit like those Covidiots (especially the ones who picket hospitals, send death threats, etc) who got it and snuffed it and whose families now expect people to chip in to help pay their bills and bury them. Fortunately, these policies, recommendations and vaccines (not experimental at all) came from experts (you know, the sort of people who have medical degrees and inconvenient things like that - and I'm sure you can quote Vernon and Sherri at me), and governments worldwide adopted them, because they made sense.
Glad to read you were following the rules.
Steve as far as I am aware post mortems/autopsies are being carried out when the cause of death is in question or do you think the NHS has the time and money to investigate every death?
With regards to which preposition should be used (WITH or FROM): if a patient dies because A&E cannot take in any more emergencies because of staff shortage or ICU beds are occupied by covid patients. I would say he or she died because OF Covid.
My question to you Steve: did this woman die OF Covid or FROM stupidity??
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996
If people have nothing better to do than create additional ADN accounts using multiple email addresses, just to manipulate the votes then good luck to them!