Alcoutim continues to be the municipality in the Algarve and mainland Portugal with the highest number of cases per 14 inhabitants, in 19 days, and is at a high level of contagion, according to the update of the cumulative incidence of Covid-29 cases , made this Monday, March XNUMX, by the General Directorate of Health.
The Alcoutenejo municipality appears with 417 cases per 100 inhabitants, a figure, even so, below the 556 cases last week, which made this Algarve municipality the only one in mainland Portugal at very high risk.
The figures released today refer to the period between 10 and 23 March and still do not reflect the calm of the situation that has been taking place in Alcoutim, which, at the moment, has only one active case.
In Portimão, the outbreaks that were detected in companies at the beginning of last week, are already being felt in this update of the cumulative incidence, with the municipality of Barlavento rising to 186 cases per 100 inhabitants.
Thus, Portimão is at the level of 120 to 239,9 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. But, taking into account the rise in cases for a few days, the risk level will rise next week.
At the level of 60 to 119,9 cases per 100 inhabitants there are six municipalities in the Algarve: Lagoa (127), Albufeira (108), Tavira (106), Castro Marim (80), Vila Real de Santo António (75) and Lagos ( 63).
At the level below (20 to 59,9 cases), there are five municipalities in the Algarve, namely Faro (59), Loulé(45), Vila do Bispo (39), Aljezur (36) and Silves (36).
The Algarve continues to have three municipalities with less than 20 cases per 100 inhabitants, one of them, Monchique, with zero incidence until 23 March. The other two are São Brás de Alportel (19) and Olhão (18).
Also in Monchique there are changes in sight, after several weeks with zero incidence, as they were recently cases detected in this county.
Today, there was a new update of the risk matrix, which once again maintains the trend that has been seen since the Government presents this table: the incidence rate of the disease in Portugal has been falling, but the rate of transmissibility, called R(t), has been rising.
In terms of incidence, it dropped to 70 cases of infection per 100 thousand inhabitants, nationally, and to 63,4 cases per 100 thousand, excluding the accounts of the autonomous regions of the Azores.
In the previous update of the matrix, these values were, respectively, 75,7 and 66,8.
O famous R(t), on the other hand, increased, to 94 at national level and to 93 on the mainland, when it previously stood at 0,93 and 0,92, respectively.
Even so, Portugal remains in the green area of the matrix, the table by which the Government will use itself to determine the speed of decontamination.
Get to know all the data for the region and by county, including the evolution in 24 hours, on the interactive map that has just been updated with the new information collected:
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