According to ULSBA daily reports, the number of infected has gone up 87,8% in the municipality of Vidigueira and 33% in Beja. There is in the Municipality of Vidigueira 93 active cases and 120 in Beja.
The situation in the municipalities of Vidigueira and Beja continues to be worrying, in view of the constant increase in covid-19 cases in the last days, in particular in the last 48 hours. Of 56 new cases confirmed in the last 24 hours in the intervention area of ​​the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA), corresponding to 13 municipalities in the district of Beja, except Odemira, 25 were in Vidigueira and 18 in Beja.
According to ULSBA daily reports, the number of infected has gone up 87,8% in the municipality of Vidigueira and 33% in Beja. Between the 24,00 hours of Thursday and 24,00 yesterday, the number of active cases in the municipality of Vidigueira rose from 50 to 93 and in Beja it went from 90 to 120 infetados.
At the beginning of December, the Municipality of “Vila dos Gamas”, as Vidigueira is known, this was one that had a low number of cases, with 7 patients with covid-19. But an outbreak in Vila de Frades, a few 3 kilometers from the county seat led to cases also increasing in the village and there are frightened 93 infetados.
Also in the Municipality of Beja, the situation has worsened in recent days, after several cases were detected at the Manuel Gerardo de Sousa e Castro Home for Children and Youth at Risk, no Beja Polytechnic Institute, which already reaches the four schools, and at Despertar Sporting Clube, which led to the suspension of activities within the association. The municipality had overcome the serious situations that, between mid-october and november, lived in the homes of the Mansion of São José and the Parish and Social Center of Salvador, where there was 16 the 22 deaths already recorded.
In addition to the Vidigueira and Beja cases, another municipality that has focused the attention of health authorities is Serpa, that already registered 141 cases, the situation having improved slightly, presenting 11 recovered patients, recording 130 infetados. Since no 24 November the outbreak in the home of Santa Casa da MisericĂłrdia de Serpa was known, They have passed 13 users.
ULSBA has revealed that 56 new cases, generate the number of 411 active infected, in total 1.669 since the beginning of the pandemic in March, now being 21 patients admitted to the infirmary and two in the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja. In the total number of deaths, there is 51 deaths by covid-19, 22 of which in Beja and 14 and Serpa.
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