Lots of outbreaks/deaths at UK "care homes"
At least 13,500 deaths linked to the novel coronavirus — nearly 1 in 3 — have occurred in British nursing and residential homes.
graphics.reuters.com
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It ain't solely in UK: in many countries, a great portion of those that died due to COVID-19 were in care homes.
For example, in Portugal's Azores archipelago, of the 15 deaths total by this virus thus far, 10 were in a
single care home. In Canada,
nearly 8 every 10 deaths have been in care homes and similar proportions can be observed in many other countries, unfortunately.
EDIT
This post got merged with the previous one, so i placed the above "EDIT" to separate the two.
Portugal's numbers have been updated:
On the left, yesterday's numbers and on the right, today's numbers (click for full picture):
- 32500 confirmed infected --- 297 more
- 19409 recovered --- 223 more
- 1410 fatalities --- 14 more
- 325026 suspected cases --- 1363 more
- 795838 tests taken --- no change
- 2016 waiting for test results ---
118 less
- 27924 under watch from authorities ---
259 less
- 474 hospitalized ---
40 less
- 64 in ICU --- 1 more
Our northern region continues to be the hardest hit by this virus and it used to have nearly 10K "advantage" in number of cases. However, and because of these small hotspots lately in Lisbon and Tejo River Valley area, that "advantage" is now less than 6K cases.
This is better illustrated with a couple pics from our "situation report" of May 20th and May 31st, respectively (click for full picture):
Our northern region is still and has always been the hardest hit but, as can be seen, it has seen an increase of just 272 infected cases in the span of 11 days. OTOH, Lisbon and Tejo River Valley region have had their infected cases number rise by 2454 in the same time frame: over 9 times higher.
Our death toll numbers aren't high when compared to other countries but, as can be seen, they do add up and do so to the point we're currently #13 in the world for deaths per 1M people with 137 deaths, if you remove those countries / other that have less than 1M people like Andorra and San Marino, for example, according to worldometer.
To put this number into perspective, Brazil currently has a lower death toll per 1M people than Portugal being #14 in the world with 132 deaths, though i expect Portugal to "lose" a place @ the expense of Brazil soon.
Portugal has seen their deaths per 1M people rise to 138 while Brazil rose to 136, with both "keeping their places in the ranking". By tomorrow, i expect we'll have "swapped places" ..., as per worldometer (click for full picture):
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