Her Minister of Health Portugal predicted today Wednesday that the Omicron mutation will cause a record number of infections in the coming days, as authorities almost announced 9.000 new cases in the last 24 hours, which is the largest number of cases recorded since the beginning of February, while yesterday 5,754 cases were recorded.
Although the country has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the world, with around 87% of its 10 million inhabitants to be fully vaccinated, daily infections have returned to the levels that were last observed when Portugal faced the worst wave of the disease in the first two months of the year, reports the RES EIA.
“We will probably reach a record number (of all seasons) of cases in the coming days,” said the Minister of Health. Marta Temido in an interview on TVI.
Portugal had announced a record at the end of January 16.432 cases, when the public health system was on the verge of collapse.
Deaths and hospitalizations are well below the levels then recorded. They are hospitalized 909 people with COVID-19 compared to the number of 6.869 patients on 1 February.
However, the impact of 14 days more than doubled last month and arrived today Wednesday the 579 cases per 100,000 people, according to official figures.
About half from new cases coronavirus in Portugal come from the Omicron variant.
New measures during the holidays
To limit its spread in anticipation of the festive season, the government announced new restrictions yesterday Tuesday, ordering to close nightclubs and bars and recommending to the world to work from home for at least two weeks, starting on Christmas Day.
The Prime Minister Antonio Costa urged citizens to limit their contacts as much as possible.
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