O prime minister had already revealed and the update of the cumulative incidence of Covid-19 cases, made this Monday, March 29, by the General Directorate of Health, recalled: Portimão, with more than 240 cases per 100 inhabitants, but also Albufeira, Lagoa and Vila do Bispo, at the level of risk immediately below, are the municipalities in the Algarve that had the highest prevalence of the disease, between the 17th and 30th of March.
These are the four Algarve counties that are among the 19 in the country whose situation must improve, if they want to continue to deconfine at the pace of the rest of the country.
The worst situation is that of Portimão, which had, in the period under review, 308 new cases per 100 inhabitants. And if this number already places it at the level of high-risk municipalities, the tendency is to get worse, since the outbreaks started in civil construction companies, with which this municipality is struggling, had, last Friday, 89 active cases associated.
In this way, Portimão's numbers should get worse in the update that will be done next week.
In other Algarve municipalities with higher incidence of the disease, there were also outbreaks that originated in civil construction and other activities, but which grew with contagion in a family environment.
Even so, taking into account the risk table that for months served as a reference to the Government, the three municipalities are at a level of 120 to 239,9 cases per 100 inhabitants, which was previously considered to be of moderate risk.
But now and with the introduction of the risk matrix, which serves as a reference to the “dropper” deconfinement decreed by the Government, being above 120 cases is not good.
Vila do Bispo, with 213 cases per 100 inhabitants, is the municipality with the highest incidence of this trio, followed by Albufeira (161) and Lagoa (141).
The other 12 municipalities in the Algarve all have less than 119,9 cases and there is even one with zero incidence, in the 14 days under consideration, that of São Brás de Alportel.
Also at the lowest level, of the municipalities with less than 20 cases per 100 inhabitants, is Castro Marim (16).
On the level above (20 to 59,9) are Aljezur (54), Loulé (47), Alcoutim (46), Tavira (37) and Olhão (27).
Vila Real de Santo António (107), Monchique (98), Lagos (69), Faro (64) and Silves (63) have between 60 and 119,9 cases per 100 inhabitants.
In Monchique, which had zero incidence for several weeks, the increase in the incidence rate was linked to cases detected about two weeks ago.
However, as it is Monday, the risk matrix data has been updated and does not bring good news: the R(t), transmissibility index, reached 1, at continental level (last Friday, it was at 0,97, XNUMX).
If we also take into account the islands, the R(t) is at 0,98, which also represents an increase compared to the last update.
Even so, the incidence rate, at the national level, dropped, at the level, to 62,8 cases of infection per 100 thousand inhabitants (previously it was 65,5). Excluding Azores and Madeira, the rate dropped from 62,9 to 60,9.
These data mean that, in the risk matrix, Portugal is now exactly in the middle between the green zone and the yellow zone, of greater risk.
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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