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Portuguese news in English on October 23, 2020.

Oct 23, 2020

∙ Paid

By the numbers

Today would be the worst day ever for new confirmed cases, if yesterday hadn’t already been so bad. There were 3270 cases and another 93 people sent to hospital yesterday, pushing the total number of hospitalised covid-19 patients to 1365, more by Público’s count than at the worst point in April. There’s more bad news today with fewer case…

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