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Covid-19. The minute situation of the new coronavirus in the country and in the world

Speaking to the BBC, British Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Monday that the government hopes to make doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 even before Christmas, if it is declared “safe and effective”.

Russia recorded an additional 22,778 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Another 303 deaths were registered.

In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 1,948,603 cases and 33,489 deaths in Russia.

7:44 am – State of play

The list of municipalities with the highest risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been extended. Since midnight, 191. There are 77 more. They are distributed from north to south of the country.

More than 80 percent of the population is subject to tighter pandemic control measures.

The Central Region has the highest number of new entries.

The measures in the 191 municipalities remain in force until at least 23 November.

Read more here the measures implemented under the state of emergency and the list of risky municipalities.
Circulation restrictions

During the week, in the counties considered to be at risk, the curfew is between 11 pm and 5 am. Exceptions that allow driving on the public road include returning home from work and traveling for health reasons.

At the weekend the curfew takes effect at 13:00. It is also only possible to leave for work, health, hygienic walks or to buy essential goods.

Therefore, pharmacies and small businesses keep their doors open during the afternoon.
ASAE processes

Last weekend, the Food and Economic Security Authority opened eight cases in shopping centers and department stores.

Some of the infractions had to do with the number of people inside the establishments and the lack of physical distance.

The targets of this operation were hypermarkets and supermarkets, large stores, restaurants and the like.

On the ground were 35 ASAE inspectors.
Outbreak at the West Hospital Center

At Centro Hospitalar do Oeste there are records of ten people infected with the new coronavirus. The outbreak and affects employees and patients.

The first case was detected on Friday in a patient admitted to the hospital The outbreak began at the Medical Service of Hospital de Caldas da Rainha.

The Centro Hospitalar do Oeste also includes the hospitals of Peniche and Torres Vedras.

Staff and patients in the affected services have already performed the tests and are now waiting for the results.
Pressure in intensive care

The Association of Hospital Administrators forecasts, in the worst case scenario, a total of 4500 hospitalizations in the next week.

It also leaves an alert for the consequences of pressure on intensive care units.

Hospital São João, in Porto, has exhausted its capacity to respond to patients with severe respiratory and heart failure. Four had to be moved to Lisbon.

Over the next week, the hospital is expected to raise the contingency plan to level 4, the most serious of all.

On the other hand, the Portuguese are resorting less and less to urgencies.

At the Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, which includes the Hospital de São José, there was a reduction of 30 percent in the month of October alone. Now people only go to the service in more complicated situations.
“We start to see resources running out”

In statements to the 360º, at RTP3, João Gouveia, president of the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care, highlights the situation experienced with psychological stress and communication difficulties in the context of intensive care. The official even says that you start to have “resources running out in the face of demand”.

The pulmonologist António Diniz, on the other hand, calls on the Portuguese to comply with the measures in force, warning that the situation cannot be resolved or controllable “upstream”, that is, in hospitals. However, he considers that the measures applied by the Government are not enough and came too late.

Both doctors criticized the lack of clarity of communication and speech by the government and warn that the scarcity of resources in the NHS applies not only in combating Covid-19, but also in responding to all other pathologies.
The picture in Portugal

76 more people died from Covid-19 between Saturday and Sunday. The country went back to overcoming the barrier of six thousand new infections: the epidemiological bulletin reported another 6035 cases.

2929 people are hospitalized in Portuguese hospitals, 131 more than on Saturday. There are 415 patients in intensive care.
The international framework

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 1,313,471 deaths resulting from more than 54 million cases of infection, according to the balance sheet which is constantly being updated by the agency France Presse.

Europe registers increasingly worrying figures.

Austria will enter total confinement and Spain started with the large-scale rapid tests on Covid-19.

Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, identified in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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