Here's Portugal's updated numbers this week:
The above pics are, in order, last day updated numbers and every day since then until today's numbers (click for full picture), and the below numbers are current totals, week totals and daily averaged this week:
- 76647 active cases --- 16621 more --- 2376.4 more per day
- 99781 recovered --- 18010 more --- 2572.9 more per day
- 2896 fatalities --- 352 more --- 50.3 more per day
- 179324 confirmed infected --- 34983 more --- 4997.6 more per day
- 3642907 tests taken --- 281370 more --- 40195.7 more per day but was last updated November 5th
- 90506 under watch --- 6056 more --- 865.1 more per day
- 2522 hospitalized --- 400 more --- 57.1 more per day
- 378 in ICU --- 94 more --- 13.4 more per day
On November 4th, there were an additional 3570 cases reported that were actually from October 30th to November 3rd and weren't reported before due to "laboratory report delay in our Northern region" (mostly from one laboratory), as shown in the pic below:
This means the actual cases from November 4th were 3927, thus this day wasn't actually our "worst day ever" in daily case numbers. I still expect that 7497 number to be beaten sometime next week ... but we shall see ...
Our new infected cases rose virtually the same VS last week, with 36.6%: almost 5K new daily cases per day. Hospitalized increased less than last week but still had a significant increase, ICU had the biggest increase VS last week with 74% and fatalities had just over 54% increase VS last week. Also of note is the increase in testing, with over 35% VS last week.
Starting tomorrow, we'll be in Emergency State again, with the intention of being in place until early next year. However, and due to Portuguese Law, it will have to be continuously renewed every 15 days in order to be in place until next year. There will be 121 counties with more severe restrictions VS the rest, for now. Don't have more details on this, for now.
On a more personal note, following the 2 cases announced this Monday in the factory where i work, there were 2 more discovered Tuesday so everyone in the factory ended up being tested by Thursday (there is a significant amount of workers not working every Friday during November due to layoff): i know my result was negative but don't yet know if there were more positive cases (or inconclusive).
This happened on the week i have my birthday so i opted to cancel the "party" (same format as my sister's, described below), just in case.
Last Monday was my sister's birthday and the main family got together just for the "cake and presents ceremony" (7 people in total, from 4 different households): we wore masks indoors @ all times, except when eating the cake, avoided any hugs and tried to keep some distance between us.
Even though my test came back negative there's still the possibility, however unlikely, that it was a false negative so i'll continue to self isolate like i have been doing this week, for @ least another week.
yesterday saw the biggest jump since the peak of the first wave with over 25,000 new infections and sadly 492 deaths.
