In the thirteen municipalities in the ULSBA area, during the 28 days of March two counties registered ZERO active cases and seven registered ZERO dead. In the cumulative incidence the 14 days, between 10 and 23 March, four counties have ZERO cases per 100 000 population.
During the 28 days of the month of March were registered 249 positive cases of covid-19, against 1.077 that had occurred in the same period of February. In the same data variations, there was 5 fatalities, against 76 from the previous month.
During the month of March (of 1 a 28) in the municipalities of Alvito and Barrancos there were no new infections, already in Aljustrel, Almodovar, Alvito, Canyons, Castro Verde, Cuba and Ferreira do Alentejo, there was no record of fatalities caused by covid-19.
County to county analysis (of 1 a 28 February and 1 a 28 March).
Aljustrel: Active cases:1 a 28 February-141 and 1 a 28 March-10. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-9 and 1 a 28 March-0. Almodovar: Active cases:1 a 28 February-6 and 1 a 28 March-1. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-2 and 1 a 28 March-0. Alvito: Active cases:1 a 28 February-5 and 1 a 28 March-0. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-1 and 1 a 28 March-0. Canyons: Active cases:1 a 28 February-16 and 1 a 28 March-0. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-2 and 1 a 28 March-0. Beja: Active cases:1 a 28 February-244 and 1 a 28 March-53. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-24 and 1 a 28 March-1. Castro Verde: Active cases:1 a 28 February-71 and 1 a 28 March-1. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-5 and 1 a 28 March-0. Cuba: Active cases:1 a 28 February-29 and 1 a 28 March-5. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-2 and 1 a 28 March-0. Ferreira do Alentejo: Active cases:1 a 28 February-128 and 1 a 28 March-22. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-5 and 1 a 28 March-0. Mértola: Active cases:1 a 28 February-52 and 1 a 28 March-8. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-3 and 1 a 28 March-1. Moura: Active cases:1 a 28 February-156 and 1 a 28 March-81. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-18 and 1 a 28 March-1. Ourique: Active cases:1 a 28 February-22 and 1 a 28 March-2. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-1 and 1 a 28 March-1. Serpa: Active cases:1 a 28 February-190 and 1 a 28 March-51. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-13 and 1 a 28 March-2. Vidigueira: Active cases:1 a 28 February-17 and 1 a 28 March-15. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-2 and 1 a 28 March-4. Total: Active cases:1 a 28 February-1,077 and 1 a 28 March-249. Fatalities: 1 a 28 February-76 and 1 a 28 March-5. Recovered: Active cases:1 a 28 February-675 and 1 a 28 March-453.
DGS data in Beja District: Cumulative incidence at 14 days (10/03/2021 a 23/03/2021)
At a time when the country is divided into Covid-19 contagion risk levels, the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) He made known, Monday, the concrete figures by county, DGS has now chosen to use a new methodology for the presentation of data by municipality.
These refer to the Cumulative Incidence at 14 days of SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 infection corresponds to the quotient between the number of new confirmed cases in the 14 days prior to the time of analysis and the estimated resident population, by county, a 31 December 2019, the National Institute of Statistics, IP and is expressed in number of cases per 100 000 population.
Altogether, 4 counties registered zero cases in the last 14 days for 100 thousand: Almodovar, Alvito, Ravines and Ourique. With registration between 20,0 and 59 cases there 3 municipalities: Aljustrel (24), Castro Verde (43) and Mértola (33) Between the 60,0 and 119 cases there 4 municipalities: Beja (80), Ferreira do Alentejo (64), Serpa (77) and Vidigueira (91). Regarding the group with a cumulative incidence between 120,0 and 239,9 cases there 1 municipalities: Cuba (131). Finally in the group with a cumulative incidence between 240,0 and 479,9 cases there 2 municipalities: Moura (386) and Odemira (336).
According to the daily report (Daily report 29-03-2021) the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA) concerning 24,00 horas do dia 28 March, the municipality of Beja registers 29 active cases and 60 deaths.
About the number of active cases, the highlight goes to Alvito, Canyons, Castro Verde, Ourique and Vidigueira with zero active cases and Aljustrel, Almodovar, Cuba and Mértola with 1 active case in ada one of the municipalities.
In the thirteen counties there is a 4 new confirmed cases, a total of 94 active, with 6 patients admitted to the Infirmary and 1 in Intensive Care at Beja Hospital. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6.768 confirmed covid-19 cases and 243 dead.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
