LISBON.
This Monday, the first two cases of coronavirus in Portugal were confirmed. At issue are two patients admitted to hospitals in Porto. The first analyzes of the two citizens were positive for the new outbreak.
This Monday, Marta Temido, Minister of Health, participated in a press conference where a balance was made of the numbers related to this viral outbreak (Covid-19).
At this meeting, the two cases were confirmed by the minister. Marta Temido revealed that one of the confirmed cases, and already validated, concerns a 60-year-old man, who is “stable” and hospitalized at the Centro Hospitalar de São João, in Porto. This patient who was on vacation in Northern Italy started to have symptoms on February 29th.
The second case, which is now awaiting validation – a counter-proof – from the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge, is a male patient. This man, a doctor by profession, with 33 years old, is also stable and hospitalized in another hospital located in Porto. The patient was in Valencia, Spain, and began to have symptoms on February 26.
The Covid-19 outbreak, detected in December in China and which can cause respiratory infections such as pneumonia, has already caused more than 2,900 deaths and infected more than 87,000 people, according to data reported by 60 countries. Of the infected people, more than 41,000 recovered.
