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SIC Notícias | The chronology of coronavirus numbers in Portugal

Portugal exceeded 1000 cases of Covid-19 in less than three weeks and has already registered six deaths, with 235 new cases of infection just this Friday, the biggest increase.

With no official cases at the beginning of the month, the first two infections with the new coronavirus were released by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) on March 2, next Monday three weeks ago.

The first week of the month did not have a large increase in new cases, with two more on the 3rd, two more on the 4th, three on the 5th, four on the 6th and then eight new cases on Saturday and nine new cases on Sunday . Accounts made the week closed with 30 confirmed cases.

And if last week even started as the first week ended, with nine new cases, and only two on Tuesday, it would end on Sunday with 215 new cases, an increase of 185 cases in a week. The numbers recorded from the middle of last week contributed to this: on Wednesday, DGS reported 18 new cases, on Thursday 19, on Friday 34, on Saturday 57 and on Sunday 76.

This week started with a slight increase on Monday, 86 cases, and thereafter the barrier of 100 new cases per day was exceeded, and today another barrier is crossed, that of two hundred new cases in a single day.

DGS figures indicate that on Tuesday there were 117 new cases, on Wednesday 194, on Thursday there was a decrease and only 143 new cases were recorded, and this Friday there were 235 new cases in a single day .

There were no cases registered in Portugal three weeks ago and the first cases were detected in the north of the country, with epidemiological links abroad and then also a case in Lisbon. On March 4, there were three cases in Porto, one in Coimbra and two in Lisbon.

Just two weeks ago, on March 6, Portugal had 13 infections, eight in Porto, one in Coimbra and four in Lisbon. Today there are 1,020 cases, of which 506 in Porto, 361 in Lisbon, 106 in Coimbra, 29 in Faro, three in the Azores, two in Évora and one in Madeira.

These numbers are now joined by the count of fatalities, the first on Tuesday, another on the following day, Wednesday, another on Thursday and three more today, bringing the number of deaths to six. According to DGS, two in the central region, two in the region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, one in the northern region and another in the Algarve region.

The evolution of the pandemic in Portugal is as follows:

March 2 – 2 cases total 2
March 3 – 2 cases total 4
March 4 – 2 cases total 6
March 5 – 3 cases total 9
March 6 – 4 cases total 13
March 7 – 8 cases total 21
March 8 – 9 cases total 30
March 9 – 9 cases total 39
March 10 – 2 cases total 41
March 11 – 18 cases total 59
March 12 – 19 cases total 78
March 13 – 34 cases total 112
March 14 – 57 cases total 169
March 15 – 76 cases total 245
March 16 – 86 cases total 331
March 17 – 117 cases total 448 1 total death 1 death
March 18 – 194 cases total 642 1 total death 2 deaths
March 19 – 143 cases total 785 1 total death 3 deaths
March 20 – 235 cases total 1,020 3 deaths total 6 deaths

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