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By the numbers

Only one person died from COVID-19 today, the fewest since March 19. Overall active cases (12,475) are still increasing slightly thanks to the somewhat elevated number of new cases being diagnosed every day. The daily increase has stabilised slightly since last week, but 91% of today’s new cases are still in the Lisbon and Tejo Valley regi…