Since March 26 that Portugal did not have such a low number of deaths in 24 due to covid-19, eleven have been counted since yesterday in the daily bulletin released by the Directorate-General for Health. The country now has 1,074 deaths and 25,702 positive cases, having the number of infected people rose by 172. 818 patients are hospitalized, eight more than in the report with the previous epidemiological situation, but again there are fewer patients in need of intensive care, down to 134, nine left the critical condition. There are also 1,743 patients who have been reported as recovered by health authorities.
In comparison with Monday’s data, which recorded 1,063 deaths, today there was an increase of 1% in deaths.
Regarding the number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus (25,702), data from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) show that there are 178 more cases than on Monday (25,524), representing an increase of 0.7% .
The North region is the one with the highest number of deaths (613), followed by the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (223), the Center (211) Algarve (13), the Azores (13) and the Alentejo which registers a In this case, the epidemiological situation report advances, with data updated until midnight on Monday, keeping the Autonomous Region of Madeira with no record of deaths.
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