Health authorities report 27,916 new coronavirus cases, 49 more deaths
According to its daily epidemiological bulletin, 2,469 people are currently in hospital with Covid-19, or 72 more than on Sunday, with 160 of them in intensive care (an unchanged figure).
Portugal on Monday reported 27,916 new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections in the previous 24 hours, 49 more deaths associated with Covid-19 and 72 more people hospitalised with the disease, figures from the Directorate-General of Health (DGS) show.
According to its daily epidemiological bulletin, 2,469 people are currently in hospital with Covid-19, or 72 more than on Sunday, with 160 of them in intensive care (an unchanged figure).
The number of active cases has decreased to 586,150, or 11,729 fewer than on Sunday, with 39,596 people having been reported as recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,033,747.
An additional 8,578 close contacts were placed on surveillance in the last 24 hours, for a current total of 633,177.
Since March 2020 a total of 2,639,802 people in Portugal have been confirmed as infected with SARS-CoV-2 and there have been 19,905 deaths associated with Covid-19 declared.
Of the latest deaths, 24 occurred in the North region, 11 in Lisbon and Tagus Valley, eight in the Centre, four in the Algarve, one in the Alentejo and one in Madeira.
By age, one of the people with Covid-19 who died was aged between 30 and 39, two were between 50 and 59, one was aged between 60 and 69, seven were between 70 and 79 years old and 38 were aged 80 or older.
Most of the new infections were diagnosed in the North, at 14,536 infections. In the Lisbon region there were 7,038 and in the Centre 3,362. In the Algarve 983 more people were infected in the 24 hours, in the Alentejo 662 more, in the Azores 798 and in Madeira 537.
SARS-CoV-2 has so far infected at least 1,236,536 men and 1,400,829 women in Portugal. There are still 2,437 cases where the sex of the person is as yet unknown, as this data is not provided automatically.
Worldwide, Covid-19 has caused more than 5.66 million deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
The new Omicron variant, classified as worrying and very contagious by the World Health Organization (WHO), was detected in southern Africa and, since the South African health authorities gave the alert in November, has become dominant in several countries, including Portugal.
