Portugal exceeds 50,000 new cases of Covid
In the last 24 hours, 52,549 cases of infection and 33 deaths from Covid-19 have been identified in Portugal.
Portugal’s health authorities have identified 52.549 new cases of Covid-19, which brings the total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic to over two million. This Wednesday’s bulletin also shows that 33 more people have died of the disease in the last 24 hours, making a total of 19,413 deaths.
The daily epidemiological bulletin, published by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), additionally reports an increase in the number of people hospitalised, with 1,959 hospitalisations this Wednesday, four more than yesterday, and 153 in intensive care units, seven less in the last 24 hours.
The North registers the highest number of cases, totalling 22,455, followed by the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region (16,192), Centre (7,744), Algarve (1,960), Madeira (1,865), Alentejo (1,502), and Azores (831).
Of the 33 deaths, 15 occurred in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region, 10 in the North, five in the Centre, one in the Alentejo, one in the Azores, and one in the Madeira island.
