The average number of infections fell again to 10,080 daily cases in Portugal, but the transmissibility index (Rt) of the virus that causes COVID-19 rose slightly from 0.86 to 0.92, INSA said this Wednesday.
According to the weekly report of the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) on the development of the pandemic, the average number of daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection in five days has decreased from 11,166 to 10,080 to 10,080, the national level, slightly lower on the mainland (9429).
The document also indicates that on Friday, Rt was 0.92, while this indicator, which estimates the number of secondary infections from each carrier of the virus, was 0.86 on June 24.
The average value of Rt for the period from June 27 to July 1 was 0.88, according to INSA, which says that all regions of the country are below the threshold of 1.00 for this indicator.
The North has Rt 0.88, Center 0.90, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo 0.86, Alentejo 0.87, Algarve 0.96, Azores 0.94 and Madeira 0.87.
“All regions except the northern region have an incidence rate of more than 960 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days”, with the highest rate in the Azores (2,107.3), followed by the Algarve (2,078). .9) and Madeira (2022.7), the report says.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, global infections have increased for the fourth consecutive week, following a downward trend since the last peak of infections in March.
Over 4.6 million new cases were reported in the week of June 27 to July 3, but the number of new weekly deaths fell by 12%, with about 8,100 deaths recorded.
By country, the highest number of new weekly cases was reported in France (603,074 new cases), followed by Germany (555,331), Italy (511,037), the United States of America (496,049) and Brazil (334,852). WHO.
Since the beginning of the pandemic until July 3, more than 546 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection have been confirmed worldwide and about 6.3 million deaths have been recorded.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
