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Ourém is, for the second consecutive day, the only municipality in the Middle Tejo to register new cases of covid-19. Today, two more infections were confirmed among people who were under active surveillance by contacts with previously flagged patients: a 30-year-old man, connected to one of the cases from Odivelas, and another relative to a 69-year-old man, who had contacted a element infected in the choir of the Sanctuary of Fátima, bringing to 39 the number of positive cases related to the outbreak that started there.
The Public Health Delegate of ACES do Médio Tejo, Maria dos Anjos Esperança, in a telephone interview with mediotejo.net, stressed the importance of maintaining “restrictions on travel between the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and other less affected areas of the country. ”, As is the case in the Middle Tejo region. “If there are no emergencies or work issues, these trips should continue to be avoided as much as possible,” he recalls.
Should residents in Lisbon then avoid taking summer holidays elsewhere in the country? “May the people of Lisbon forgive me, especially those who live in the areas with the greatest number of infected people, but they should really think about maintaining their isolation in the areas where they live. But if they move, they must comply with the rules of respiratory etiquette, hand hygiene and removal. It is possible to move to other places in the country, but always keeping the distance, not least because it is necessary to remember that our airline is not flying to many destinations but every day flights from other countries continue to arrive in Lisbon where transmission of the virus is communal ”, and that can lead to the progression of the disease in our territory, he considers.
Current situation of the day with the ACES Health Delegate from Médio Tejo (audio)
In addition, tomorrow, July 1, land borders with Spain will also be reopened, which should lead the communities of the Interior to maintain their cautions. “It is a risk, but we have to start opening up the country and we can try, with our posture, maintaining the removal and hygiene behavior, to prevent the disease from spreading.”
With regard to the 109 tests performed yesterday on elderly people hospitalized at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Abrantes, following a positive test confirmed by a service provider outside the institution, all results were not yet available at 7 pm today. However, the Health Delegate advanced to mediotejo.net, which have all been negative. “Any positive test is immediately communicated to me, either by phone message or by email. I haven’t received any alerts yet and I am confident that I will not receive them. ”
This Tuesday, June 30, ACES Médio Tejo presents an accumulated total of 288 infected people (+2), 153 recovered (-), 117 people under active surveillance (-5), and 14 deaths (-). Ourém is the municipality with the most people under active surveillance (64), followed by Entroncamento (18), Torres Novas (15), Tomar (8), Abrantes (4), Mação (4), and Ferreira do Zêzere (3). With the cases of Sertã (6) and Vila de Rei (1), the Médio Tejo region totals 295 infected people, 160 recovered and 14 deaths.
ACES Médio Tejo covers 11 municipalities and approximately 225 thousand users / regulars, comprising the municipalities of Abrantes, Alcanena, Constância, Entroncamento, Ferreira do Zêzere, Mação, Ourém, Sardoal, Tomar, Torres Novas and Vila Nova da Barquinha. Vila de Rei and Sertã are linked to ACES do Pinhal Interior Sul. ACES Pinhal Interior Sul covers four municipalities and around 33 thousand people, comprising the municipalities of Vila de Rei, Sertã, Oleiros and Proença-A-Nova.
The data after confinement and after the survey of the State of Emergency show an evolution of 146 positive cases in the 13 municipalities, almost as many as those confirmed in the mandatory quarantine period.
Covid-19 | Portugal registers eight more dead and 229 confirmed cases
Portugal today registers eight more deaths caused by covid-19 than on Monday and 229 more infected, about 82% of which in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) announced today. According to the DGS epidemiological bulletin, the number of deaths related to covid-19 today amounts to 1,576 people, while confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic total 42,141 infected.
In comparison with Monday’s data, there was an increase of 0.5% in deaths today, a growth identical to that seen in the evolution of cases of infection. In the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, where the greatest number of outbreaks has been recorded, the covid-19 pandemic reached 19,165 cases today, 188 more than on Monday. This region currently has 45% of those infected across the country.
In mainland Portugal there was an increase in the number of infected people, with the north representing the second region with the highest growth. In this region, DGS counts 20 more people infected with the new coronavirus, reaching 17,521 today.
The Center region appears in the next position in the list of regions with the highest growth in the number of infected, having registered 10 more than on Monday, which totals 4,110 people infected with covid-19. Also in Alentejo, seven more infected ones were detected, reaching 484, while the Algarve added three more patients, reaching 618. The Azores register 150 cases of infection with the new coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, the same number on Monday, and 15 dead, with 92 people still infected and with no recorded deaths.
The Lisbon and Tagus Valley region is the second with the highest number of deaths (473), five more than on Monday. Today, the North registers one more death, totaling 818, followed by the Center, with 248 deaths, the Algarve with 15 deaths and the Alentejo registers seven deaths, two more than on Monday.
Of the total number of infected people in Portugal, 491 are hospitalized, two more than on Monday, with 73 in intensive care units, two more than in the previous count.
In the distribution of cases infected by municipalities, Lisbon is the one with the highest number of cases, with 3,502 (49 more than on Monday), followed by Sintra, with 2,668 (more 54).
In the third place of the municipalities with the most infected is Loures, with a total of 1,827 (plus 15), followed by Amadora, with 1,697 (31 more infected than on Monday), and Vila Nova de Gaia, with 1,650 (plus one).
Still above a thousand cases, we count Porto, which maintained the 1,414 cases of infections, Matosinhos, which also continues with the same number registered on Monday, 1,292, and Braga, which also maintains the previous number, adding 1,256 patients .
The list of municipalities with more than 1,000 infected people also includes Gondomar, with 1,093 cases, and Odivelas, with 1,101, three more than on Monday.
Data from the DGS report indicate that, of the total deaths recorded to date, 786 are men and 790 are women. By age group, the highest number of deaths is registered among people aged 80 or over (1,056), followed by the age group between 70 and 79 (304).
Among the population aged between 60 and 69 years old there are 144 deaths, in addition to 50 deaths among people aged between 50 and 59 years old. Between 40 and 49 years old there were 18 deaths, two between 30 and 39 years old and two in the age group between 20 and 29 years old.
Globally, the age group most affected by the disease is 40 to 49 years old (7,013), followed by the age group between 30 and 39 years old (6,721) and people aged between 50 and 59 years old (6,616) ). In the youngest age groups, between 20 and 29 years old, there are 6,146 cases and, between 10 and 19 years old, 1,723, while in children up to nine years old there are 1,232 cases.
The DGS also accounts for 4,339 cases in the age group from 60 to 69 years old, 3,039 between 70 and 79 years old, and 3,569 over 80 years old.
A total of 1,454 people are awaiting laboratory test results and 31,413 are under surveillance by health authorities. Since January 1, Portugal has registered 380,476 suspected cases, according to the bulletin, stating that 27,505 recovered, 300 more than on Saturday.
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