COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Portugal in March 2020 by the Directorate-General of Health (DGS).
COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Location | Portugal |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Porto |
Arrival date | 2 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 28,132[1] |
Active cases | 26,278[1] |
Suspected cases‡ | 282,961[1] |
Severe cases | 103[1] |
Hospitalized cases | 692[1] |
Recovered | 3,182[1] |
Deaths | 1,175[1] |
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‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed as being due to this strain by laboratory tests, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
Cases
The first recorded cases of COVID-19 in Portugal were reported on 2 March.[2] A week later, the Portuguese government declared the highest level of alert because of COVID-19 and said it would be maintained until 9 April.[3]
Response
On 18 March, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, declared State of Emergency for the following fifteen days, with the possibility of it being extended. It was the first act of emergency since the Carnation Revolution in 1974.[4] The act was extended on 2 April.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Ponto de Situação em Portugal". covid19.min-saude.pt (in português). Archived from the original on 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
- ↑ "Covid-19. Estado de alerta até pelo menos 9 de abril". Expresso. 13 March 2020. https://expresso.pt/coronavirus/2020-03-13-Covid-19.-Estado-de-alerta-ate-pelo-menos-9-de-abril. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ↑ "Mensagem do Presidente da República ao País sobre a declaração do estado de emergência (Palácio de Belém, 18 de março de 2020)" [Message of the President of the Republic to the Country on the declaration of a state of emergency]. Presidency of the Portuguese Republic (in português). 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ↑ "Parlamento aprova prolongamento do estado de emergência até 17 de abril" (in pt). Sapo. 2 April 2020. https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/parlamento-aprova-renovacao-do-estado-de-emergencia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.