Wuhan pneumonia severe (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19), the Portuguese Epidemic has soared since January and the health care system is almost overloaded. The total number of confirmed cases in Portugal is currently 710,018, 43% of whom were diagnosed in January. Last month alone, 5,576 people died as a result of the epidemic, nearly doubling the total number of infected deaths.
According to Reuters, Portugal’s health authorities have calculated that 710,108 people have been diagnosed in the country since March last year, with 43 percent of them diagnosed in the last month. The number of deaths last month was also extremely high, with 5,576 people dying from Wuhan pneumonia, accounting for nearly half of the 12,482 total deaths.
The Portuguese government blamed the outbreak on the British variant of the virus, but also admitted that it was due to a loosening of the outbreak lockdown policy and social distance rules during the Christmas holidays.
Portuguese hospitals are already overloaded, not only lacking doctors and nursing staff, but hospitals are running out of freezers to keep the bodies. The Portuguese Association of Funeral Directors has warned that many hospital morgues are running low on freezers due to a sharp increase in deaths from the epidemic, and the country’s largest hospital, Santa Maria Hospital, and some hospitals have installed additional freezers in their morgues.
Vaccination in Portugal has been slow, with only about 70,000 people having received two doses of the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine so far, and only today (1) did the elderly over 80 years old start receiving the vaccine.
The country currently has 858 confirmed patients being cared for in intensive care units, and 6694 confirmed patients being hospitalized. Other data show that the Portuguese public health system has 850 intensive care beds for people with severe cases of Wuhan pneumonia, and another 420 beds are allocated to the rest of the patients.
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