Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has recorded 4,427 deaths (+64) and 294,799 (+4,093) cases of infection, with 80,838 active, 770 more than on Saturday.
DGS indicates that, of the 64 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, 31 occurred in the North region, 22 in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 8 in the Centro region, two in the Alentejo and one in the Algarve. In the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores there is no recorded death.
Health authorities have been monitoring 80,288 contacts, minus 197 compared to yesterday, and 3,259 patients have been reported to have recovered in the last 24 hours, an accumulated total of 209,534 since the start of the pandemic.
3,245 patients are hospitalized (90 less than yesterday). In Intensive Care there are 536 people due to covid-19 (plus 7), the highest value ever recorded.
The North continues to be the region of the country to account for the largest number of cases and new daily infections, concentrating in the last 24 hours about 61% of new cases of covid-19, followed by Lisbon and Vale do Tejo.
According to the bulletin, the North region today accounts for more than 2,490 infections, totaling 154,690 cases and 2,097 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, a further 979 new cases of infection were reported, with 97,684 cases of infection and 1,584 deaths so far.
In the Center region, 444 more cases of infection were registered, with 29,269 and 564 deaths now.
In Alentejo, 84 new cases were registered, totaling 6,010 and 114 dead.
The Algarve region has today reported 49 new cases of infection, totaling 5,269 cases and 49 deaths, since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 37 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, adding up to 990 infections detected and 17 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Madeira registered 10 new cases in the last 24 hours, accounting for 887 infections and two deaths.
In the bulletin, the Directorate-General for Health states that, on November 16, there was an update of the data analysis technology system from the National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE), with the cumulative number of confirmed and recovered cases being updated. in this date.
Confirmed cases are distributed across all age groups, with the highest number of infections between 20 and 59 years of age.
The new coronavirus has already infected at least 130,193 men and 159,488 women in Portugal, according to the declared cases.
Today’s bulletin states that there are 5,118 confirmed cases of unknown sexes that are under investigation, as these data are not provided automatically.
Of the total number of fatalities, 2,302 were men and 2,125 women.
The largest number of deaths continues to be concentrated in people over 80 years of age.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,453,074 deaths resulting from more than 62.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
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