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Portugal records 44,416 cases and 1,629 deaths from Covid-19 – O Jornal Económico

Portugal has a total of 44,416 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 287 more than the previous day, reveals the epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) released this Tuesday, July 7th. The number of fatalities from the new coronavirus in the country has increased to 1,629, corresponding to nine more deaths in the last 24 hours.

The epidemiological bulletin released this afternoon indicates that, to date, 394,134 suspected cases have been recorded and 1,308 people are still awaiting the results of Covid-19’s laboratory tests. There are currently 348,410 unconfirmed cases after the analysis, and 33,134 are under surveillance by health authorities.

DGS reveals that there are currently 17,823 cases registered in the North, 4,211 in the Center, 20,929 in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, 663 in the Algarve, 151 cases in the Autonomous Region of the Azores, 93 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira and 544 cases in the Alentejo.

There are currently 511 hospitalized patients, of which 76 are in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and 29,445 cases recovered in Portugal, 279 more than those recorded yesterday.

Of the total of 1,629 deaths, 821 were in the North, 248 in the Center, 513 in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, 15 in the Algarve, 15 in the Azores, 17 in the Alentejo, with none registered in Madeira.

The DGS bulletin counts a female and male fatal victim between the ages of 30 and 39, joining the two female and male fatal victims between the ages of 20 and 29, and there are currently four confirmed deaths under 40 deity.

There are also 10 female and 10 male fatalities between the ages of 40 and 49 years old. There were 38 male victims and 15 female victims in the age group from 50 to 59 years old, 102 victims between 60 and 69 years old male and 46 female, 189 male deaths and 125 female deaths between 70 and the 79 years. There are also 472 male victims and 618 female victims over 80 years of age.

In relation to symptoms, the most reported are cough (36%), fever (28%), muscle pain (21%), headache (20%), generalized weakness (14%) and breathing difficulties (10%).

According to a note from the health authority, the report released does not include the “update of case allocation to municipalities”, with DGS “carrying out the verification of all data with local and regional health authorities, which will be completed. over the next few days ”. Thus, the number of cases per municipality remains the same as Sunday and the table by age is still not presented due to computer error.

[Notícia atualizada às 14h14]

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