Portugal: Forty-seven Covid deaths recorded on Wednesday, highest in months – Macau Business

Portugal recorded 47 deaths fromCovid-19 on Wednesday, the highest number of deaths in over 100 days, according to data from thehealthauthority (DGS) released on Thursday.

According to the health authority, on Wednesday, the day26,848 cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were confirmed, and 47 deaths were reported, five more than the previous day.

Portugal had not recorded so many deaths per day fromCovid-19 since17February, when 51 deaths due to the disease were reported.

DGS figures alsoshowedthat in the last two months, when the country entered the sixth wave of the pandemic, 1,455 peoplehaddied fromCovid-19, 592 in April and 863 in May.

According to the latest reportfrom the DGS and the Ricardo Jorge Institute, released on Friday, Covid-19 mortality in Portugal reached 41 deaths in 14 days per million inhabitants, a figure that is about twice the threshold of 20 deaths set by the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC)andis seeing an upwards trend.

All-cause mortality is above the expected values for the time of year, the document said, which associated this situation with the increase inCovid-19 specific mortality.

Henrique Oliveira, a mathematician at the Higher Technical Institute who is part of the institutions pandemic monitoring working group, estimated that hospitalisations,intensive careadmissions anddeathswould remainhigh until 25 June since the countryhadabout 200,000 people currently infected.

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