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

In view of these figures known this Sunday, it is concluded that even if there is a downward trend, this number of new cases is still not regularly below 200/300. Thus, the value of Thursday seems to have been isolated.

The number of new cases (521) decreased compared to the previous balance. Despite the decline, this record remained far from the low value registered on Thursday, with 181 cases.

The number of people under surveillance by health authorities is now the highest ever. After about 15 days ranging from 23,000 to 27,000, with ups and downs, there are now almost 28,000 people to be followed.

According to these data from the General Directorate of Health, the number of people who knew the test result reached a maximum yesterday. There were more than 25,000 people, and it is a big increase compared to yesterday’s figure, which was just over 3,400. In other words, this value is seven times higher than the previous one. And it is also more than double compared to the previous maximum, reached on the 8th of this month.

Great stability in the number of new fatalities remains, but this time with a lower value. Yesterday, 27 people died, it was the lowest value of the last 9 days.

In terms of age, 25 of the 27 people who died were over 70 years old.

14h41 – A message from Francisco

Pope Francis came to maintain today that the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic is a “time to eliminate inequalities” and “the virus” of selfishness, words spoken during the Mass on the Sunday of Mercy.

14h34 – United Kingdom exceeds 16 thousand dead

The UK recorded an additional 596 deaths of people infected with the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, increasing the number of deaths during the pandemic to 16,060.

The total number of contagion cases is now 120,067, 5850 more than on Saturday.

As of Saturday, a further 888 deaths and 5526 new cases of infected people had been reported over the previous day.

The death figures are compiled from data from the regional offices of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and refer to deaths registered until 17:00 the day before in hospitals only.

The number of infected people is calculated differently and includes diagnoses made until 9:00 am on the current day.

14h25 – Identified man who entered distance learning platforms
The Judiciary Police announced on Sunday the identification of a 20-year-old man who entered online distance learning platforms last week, through the improper use of access credentials, thus disrupting the functioning of classes.

The PJ points out, in a note released in the last hours, that the identified author was not part of the classes, whose classes were interrupted, and that, when identified, assumed “that his behavior was undue and therefore offered to erase all those contents that were advertised on the Internet “.

“On his own initiative, he also proceeded to eliminate all his accounts on social networks, which were the basis of this illegal activity and for which he could be held criminally and civilly liable,” added the PJ.

On Friday, Fenprof announced that it would file a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office after the intrusion of third parties into online distance learning platforms and misuse of personal data, access codes, photographs and videos of students and teachers.

Fenprof considered that the security of teachers, students and their families “cannot be called into question”, by using platforms for distance learning, with “well-founded fears” that security is not safeguarded.

The union structure demanded that the Ministry of Education urgently guarantee the safe use of online meeting platforms, or present alternatives to their use, so that teachers and students can develop their work.

14h22 – Italian village in mandatory quarantine

The Italian municipality of Saviano, on the outskirts of Naples, was placed in compulsory quarantine this Sunday after hundreds of inhabitants participated in the funeral of the mayor, doctor Carmine Sommese, victim of Covid-19.

13h05 – Questions and answers

Asked about the ceremonies of the 25th of April and the 1st of May, specifically with regard to concrete measures to be implemented by the health authorities, the Minister of Health referred to the Director-General of Health, but said that she is being worked out the answer “to these two moments of our life”.

“We will continue to do this work and in order to protect everyone”, stressed Marta Temido. “We are still detailing the precise terms. It would not even be right to be here sharing details that we have been thinking about, but that we have to discuss. People can rest easy. We will not let one day, a gesture, cause a collective effort to be lost” , he added, in an idea immediately shared by Graça Freitas.

Also questioned about the sanitary fence imposed in Câmara de Lobos, in Madeira, the DGS considered to be “100 percent in agreement with what we have said”.

RTP questioned the Minister of Health about the number of tests carried out in the country and the fact that Marta Temido affirmed, the day before, that the peak of infections in Portugal could have occurred at the end of March.

Marta Temido started by answering that the dispersion of entities that are carrying out tests in Portugal “makes the aggregation of numbers, sometimes, a little longer than what the report is”.

As for the probable peak in March, this “holds people accountable”, in the view of the Minister of Health. “Regardless, we have always had the transparency to tell the Portuguese that we cannot push new waves or a resurgence of the disease when the measures are limited “, reaffirmed Marta Temido.

12:32 pm – Health authorities press conference

The Minister of Health points out that, in the last 24 hours, of the 27 deaths, 19 occurred in people over 80 years old.

“Of our total confirmed cases in treatment, 87.3 percent remained treated at home and 61 percent of individuals in hospital,” specified Marta Temido.

“In terms of tests, since March 1, around 249 thousand tests had been carried out. Of this total, it is important to underline that 39 percent had been carried out in March and 60 percent had already been carried out in April,” he said. then the ruler.

“The day on which more tests will have been carried out will have been the last Wednesday, with about 13,300 tests”, he said, before reporting the arrival of more material for the completion of theses in the coming days.

Still in terms of supplies, according to the Health Minister, “5.5 million surgical masks and 1.2 million respiratory masks, the ones designated face filtering piece, in addition to gowns, dens and other personal protective materials “.

“The SNS24 continues to operate regularly, with 7,700 calls received on the last day, with an average waiting time of around 21 seconds for assistance,” added Marta Temido.

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have found several disruptive facts of our social foundations. As always, the most vulnerable are the most exposed. In this context, the National Mental Health Program and the Directorate-General for Health decided to publish a standard in the context of Covid-19 pandemic, the minister continued, before giving the floor to the director of the National Mental Health Program.

“These days, having good mental health is also having the capacity to resist and maintain social isolation. One gesture, an unnecessary exit can cause everything to be lost. And we would not be true if we did not say this to the Portuguese head-on”, insisted the head of the Health folder.
“Huge confusion” as to the meaning of mental health

“We are afraid for ourselves, we are afraid for our families. The second determinant is social disruption. We are social people and we are used to living in society. And we are in a situation where we do not see all of this. We had to convert to telework from extremely quickly, we have difficulties and this means that some of the things that are crucial for our mental health are also interrupted “, emphasized, in turn, the director of the National Mental Health Program, Miguel Xavier.

The official, who wanted to mitigate what he considers to be “a huge confusion” regarding the extent of mental health, then warned of problems of anxiety and concern about the future, “which can translate into insomnia”, common feelings that can result from the confirmation and daily contact of families in this situation. Or even the upsurge of “some latent conflicts”.

All the information that is provided to citizens is also a factor of anxiety, also warned the director of the Mental Health Program.

11h49 – DGS releases numbers



Portugal now has a record of 714 deaths caused by Covid-19. The number of confirmed cases of infection is 20,206, according to the last epidemiological bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.

There was an increase of 27 fatalities compared to Saturday’s data. The number of infections rose to 521.

Health authority data also report a total of 610 people reported to have recovered from infection with the new coronavirus.

The number of suspected cases registered by the DGS since 1 January is 187,604. At this time, 4959 people are awaiting results from laboratory tests. 27,947 are under surveillance.

11:46 am – More than 160,000 dead globally

The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 160,000 deaths worldwide. About two-thirds of those deaths occurred in Europe. It is the result of the balance made by the agency Franc Presse this morning.

According to multiple official sources from around the world, 160,502 deaths associated with the Covid-19 pandemic were registered, of which 101,398 in Europe, the continent most affected.

In terms of the number of infection cases, AFP counts 2,331,318 cases, of which 1,151,820 have been registered in the European continent.

The United States is the country with the highest number of deaths (39,090), ahead of Italy (23,227), Spain (20,453), France (19,323) and the United Kingdom (15,464).

11:43 am – Numbers from Africa

The pandemic in Africa killed 1055 people and infected 21,096, with recoveries rising to 4974, according to the latest bulletin from the African Union’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The latest data update says that in the past 24 hours, the death toll has risen from 1016 to 1055.

For their part, those infected passed the 20,000 mark, to 21,096, against 19,895 on Saturday.

The number recovered from the infection went from 4642 to 4974.

The most affected region remains North Africa, with 767 dead.

11h38 – Number of deaths in Belgium declines by the second day

Belgium recorded an additional 230 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, a decrease in the number of victims for the second consecutive day, to a total of 5683 fatalities.

Of these 230 deaths, 76 occurred in hospitals (2,655 in total) and 154 in homes or nursing homes (2926), which were included in the count on 10 April.

As of Friday, 313 deaths had been registered, a number that fell back to 290 on Saturday and now to 230.

In the last 24 hours, a further 1313 cases confirmed by laboratory tests were reported, totaling 38,496 infections between March 15 and April 18 – 407 were reported in homes, for a total of 2854.

The number of infections increased compared to Saturday’s data, when another 1045 were released.

In the last 24 hours, more than 265 people were admitted to hospitals – a drop compared to 303 on Saturday – in a total of 13,130 and 409 were discharged (387 on Saturday), which makes 8757 since March 15.

10h42 – Chartered plane arrives in Lisbon with 65 fans

Sixty-five ventilators acquired by the Portuguese government from a Chinese company arrived in Lisbon this Sunday in a chartered plane, together with other medical equipment, namely respiratory protection masks.

The delivery of the fans was expected to take place last week, but due to “strong competition between States for access to equipment” and “interruptions in supply chains”, including access to components, at a time when several countries are in state and emergency, production was delayed, according to the Portuguese embassy in Beijing.

“Every effort has been made with several entities to ensure, in this adverse situation, the delivery of equipment within the time frame appropriate to the medical needs of our country,” said the diplomatic representation, cited by Lusa.

10h39 – Numbers soar in Russia

Russian authorities reported on Sunday 6060 new cases of coronavirus in 24 hours, an unprecedented increase since the start of the pandemic.

There are now 42,853 confirmed cases of infection on Russian territory.

10h31 – Australia defends independent inquiry to WHO

Australia on Sunday defended an independent inquiry into the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and how the World Health Organization has managed the crisis.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the country is calling for an urgent investigation into how China managed the epidemic in Wuhan, the city where the new coronavirus emerged at the end of the year.

“We need to know the details that only an independent report will allow us to understand about the origin of the virus, how to deal with it, about the transparency with which the information was shared,” said the minister to the public television station ABC.

10h28 – Spain releases numbers

The number of deaths caused by Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Spain was 410, which translates into a break from Saturday’s figures.

According to the latest assessment by health authorities in the neighboring country, since the start of the pandemic, 20,453 people have died.

The total number of infections is 195,944. 77,357 people were cured.

10h18 – Lisbon Hostel evacuated
A case of infection with the new coronavirus in a hostel in the center of Lisbon forced the removal of all customers from the building.

The RTP report on the site heard the Civil Protection councilor from the Lisbon City Council, Carlos Castro.

The operation on Rua Morais Soares started at 7:00 am on Sunday.

“There are about two hundred people who are here. They are being removed from here and will be taken to a place where they will be in isolation and where the tests will be carried out,” explained the mayor.

Then, a team of Firefighters from Lisbon will advance to decontaminate the building. Whoever has negative tests will return to the hostel.

09h55 – Caring for your eyesight

The eyes are potential routes of infection for the new coronavirus. Therefore, eye care gains more importance in the context of a pandemic.

Ophthalmologist José Salgado Borges explained this Sunday at Good Morning Portugal the importance of eye care.

Contact with the tear and the external surface of the eye are potential routes of contagion.

9:41 am – Trump insinuates that China had a hand in the new coronavirus

The President of States warns that China will suffer consequences if it is proved that it was “consciously responsible” for the new coronavirus pandemic.

Donald Trump is waiting for the outcome of the investigations.

9:33 am – The pandemic that changed the world. A first assessment

It was on February 11 of this year that the World Health Organization called Covid-19 the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Thirty days later, he declared the pandemic.

The new coronavirus quickly transformed the entire world.

9:27 am – The April 25 controversy

More than eight thousand people have already signed an online petition defending the celebration of the 25th of April in Parliament, which has the socialist history Manuel Alegre as its first subscriber.

“Democracy is not and cannot be suspended. We welcome the tribute that the people and the Parliament pay to the 25th of April”, says the text to launch the petition.

By 8:30 am this Sunday, the document had 8,445 signatures.

In addition to Manuel Alegre, Domingos Abrantes, a member of the PCP and State Councilor, former socialist deputies Alberto Martins and José Vera Jardim, the founder of BE Fernando Rosas and MEP of this party Marisa Matias and the teacher professor and essayist Isabel Alegro de Magalhães.

This petition arises days after another one was launched in the opposite direction, asking for the cancellation of the celebrations of the 25th of April in the Assembly of the Republic, which already has more than 65 thousand signatures.

8:48 am – New numbers from Germany

The number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus in Germany has increased from 2458 to 139,897, according to official data known this morning.

It is a less expressive increase than the one that was released on Saturday: 3,069.

The number of deaths increased from 184 to 4294, an evolution that also reflects a decrease compared to the increases of the previous two days: 242 on Saturday and 299 on Friday.

7h58 – The picture in the far east

Japan registered 568 new cases of covid-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 10,361 since the beginning of the epidemic.

With the 712 cases of the disease detected on the Diamond Princess cruise, which was quarantined at the beginning of the year, in the port of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, the country has so far registered 11,073 patients.

According to data released on the Johns Hopkins University website, Japan recorded 222 deaths.

China

China has registered 16 new cases of covid-19 in the past 24 hours, including seven from local contagion, the country’s Health Commission said.

The Asian country thus maintains the downward trend in the number of infected people, after a significant increase at the beginning of the week, mainly of imported cases, mainly Chinese citizens who entered the province of Heilongjiang, in the northeast of China, from Russia.

Among local contagion cases, six were detected in Heilongjiang and one in Guangdong province, adjacent to Macau.

Until 23:59 on Saturday (16:59 in Lisbon), there were no new fatalities. The country thus reduced the number of “active” infected to 1041, including 85 in serious condition.

The total number of infected people diagnosed in China since the beginning of the pandemic is 82,735, including 4632 dead. So far, 77,029 people have been discharged.

South Korea

South Korea has recorded eight new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected people to 10,661 in the country.

According to the South Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the country has so far recorded 234 deaths.

Of the 10,661 infected since the beginning of the epidemic, 8,042 have recovered, while 12,243 are awaiting the results of the tests to determine whether they contracted Covid-19, the agency said.

The number of infections has been decreasing in South Korea, which between the end of February and the beginning of March recorded hundreds of new cases daily, mainly in Daegu and neighboring areas, in the southwest of the country.

Despite this decrease, South Korean officials have warned of the possibility of “silent contagion”.

7:38 am – United States with 1891 dead in 24 hours

The United States recorded 1891 deaths from covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 38,664, Johns Hopkins University announced.

The number of infected people is already 732,197, since the beginning of the epidemic, added those responsible for the university, located in Baltimore (east coast). On Friday, the same source accounted for 700,282 cases of contagion.

The United States currently counts the largest number of patients and deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

7:30 am – State of play

Madeira’s health authorities have put forward the first health fence in the Autonomous Region in the context of a pandemic. There is a contagion focus in the parish of Câmara de Lobos: in 24 hours the number of new cases in Covid-19 doubled.

The measure began to take effect at 12:00 am on Sunday.

The president of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, explained that the sanitary fence in that parish, in the municipality with the same name, will extend for a period of 15 days.

This possibility had started to be raised on Saturday afternoon, after the registration of ten new positive cases in the municipality, while another 40 people were waiting for the results of laboratory tests.Of the 64 cases of Covid-19 recorded in the archipelago of Madeira, since 16 March, nine were considered recovered.

The decision, said Miguel Albuquerque, was taken in consultation with the health authority of Câmara de Lobos, with the opinion of the Regional Health Authority, the agreement of the Mayor and the assent of the representative of the Republic.

“The parish of Câmara de Lobos is in a potential epidemiological situation for advanced local transmission, with a high risk of the emergence of transmission chains, both locally and regionally,” said the official.

The Regional Government Resolution determines that, with the exception of PIZO – Parque Industrial da Zona Oeste, “the entry and exit of people and vehicles in the parish of Câmara de Lobos are subject to the exceptions contained therein”.

“While the sanitary fence is running in the parish of Câmara de Lobos, the circulation and permanence of people on the public road is prohibited, except for necessary and urgent trips, namely for the sale and purchase of food and pharmaceutical goods, access to health care units, access to the workplace located in the parish of Câmara de Lobos, assistance to care for the elderly, minors, dependents and other especially vulnerable people “.

The closure of all national, regional or municipal public services is also imposed, except health centers, security forces, emergency services, communications and water and energy supply, finance and the City Council.

The document also imposes the closing of commercial establishments, except those in the food sector, pharmacies, banks, fuel filling stations and others that may be specified in a resolution of the Government Council.

The regional secretary of Health, Pedro Ramos, underlined that the isolation and confinement must be strict: “This sanitary fence is because we feel that that parish did not comply scrupulously and, therefore, we have the possibility of the unusual appearance of positive cases” .
Infected children in Santo Tirso
Four children, aged between four and ten, tested positive on Covid-19 tests. They live in the Renascer Temporary Reception Center, in Santo Tirso.

The four minors have since been transferred to the local Red Cross Delegation.

In the Temporary Reception Center there are 20 children; the majority had negative test results.

The institution’s 25 employees were also screened: 23 were negative and three are awaiting the result.
The picture in Portugal

The country had 687 deaths associated with Covid-19 yesterday, 30 more than on Friday, and 19,685 infected (663 more), according to the epidemiological bulletin released by the Directorate-General for Health.Marta Temido reiterated that the available data
allow us to estimate that the peak of the pandemic on Portuguese soil may have
occurred in late March.

Compared to Friday’s figures, there was a 4.6 percent increase in deaths.

As for the number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus, the data revealed 663 more cases than on Friday, translating into an increase of 3.5 percent.

The North region has the highest number of fatalities (393), followed by the Center (157), the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (124), the Algarve (nine) and the Azores (four).

At the press conference in the early afternoon of Saturday, the Minister of Health said that consultations, surgeries and other non-urgent care activities, suspended in March due to the pandemic, will be resumed progressively at the “end of next week”.
The international framework
In Spain, the President of the Government will ask for the extension of the state of emergency until 9 May. Pedro Sanchéz is preparing, however, to ease the confinement of minors.

In the United Kingdom, the number of deaths from Covid-19 has exceeded 15,000. Almost 900 people died in hospitals in the country and there are more and more complaints by health professionals about the lack of protection equipment.

The United States remains the leader in the number of Covid-19 cases: almost 707,000 are infected.Worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic has already done more
157 thousand dead and infected more than 2.2 million people in 193
countries and territories. More than 502 thousand patients were considered
healed.

It is also among Americans that the highest number of deaths is registered. The 37 thousand have already been surpassed. In New York State alone, more than 13,000 people died.

Despite the gravity of the situation, Florida decided to lift restrictions on access to some beaches and natural parks.

Many supporters of Donald Trump protest on the street and call for the immediate reopening of the economy after the President’s calls.

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, returned, in turn, to appeal to Brazilians not to “run away” from the new coronavirus, launching a new diatribe against the measures to contain the pandemic. This was during a public demonstration in Brasília.

“We cannot escape this virus, we have to face it with our heads held high, God is with us,” cried Bolsonaro, before the supporters gathered in the vicinity of the presidential palace.

The Brazilian President again criticized governors and mayors who defend social restraint and distance, as well as Congress and the press.

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