NOT THE NEWS WE WANTED – 4 NEWS CASES

Tobi Hughes·
News Blog

There are four more positive cases of covid-19 in Madeira, all recorded in the last 24 hours, according to IASAÚDE data revealed a few moments ago.

The four new positive cases of infection by Covid-19 are reported to four residents in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos, two of whom are in the 20-29 age group, one in the 40 age group and the other in the 50- age group. 59 years old, as the vice president of IASAÚDE, Bruna Gouveia, revealed.

“These patients were identified as close contacts of the positive cases that had been diagnosed in April in this parish,” explained the official.

These four patients had a negative result on the first screening test. After completing the isolation period, they were tested again and now report a positive result for Covid-19.

The four newly infected will remain isolated in a hotel.

Thus, the Region now counts 50 recovered patients and 40 active cases. One patient remains in the multipurpose inpatient unit dedicated to Covid-19 at Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça.

There are also 258 people on active surveillance and 42 people on self-surveillance.

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16 Responses

  1. Nothing to worry about really as they were already in quarantine.

  2. umm, might have been already in quarantine However they now tested positive,,,, still think the islands decision to relax Lockdown was to early and too much allowed to open with not enough social distancing . Could start to pay the price for that,,hope not?

  3. Oh thats such a shame youve been doing so well, just shows how quickly this virus can spread.
    This should be a lesson to other countries you’ve gone so long without any positive cases & now 4 cases come along. Fingers crossed theres no more.

  4. Shame, now we can only hope again to reach 21 virus-free days as from tomorrow. 14 days is simply not enough, nor is self quarantine.
    H

  5. It was interesting to see Pedro Ramos say today how 28 days is safer than 14 days when talking about testing (“We cannot wait 14 days, or even 28 days, which would be a safer interval, without a single case, because there would always be an occasional case that would again require two incubation cycles,”)

    I think they’re doing a great job on the whole and my hat goes off to them, but I think it’s obvious that 14 days in quarantine is not enough. We’ve had several cases (including the one that lead to the entire Camara do Lobos clustre) that emerged many days after the 14 days were up. If newly quarantined people are only put in a hotel for 14 days and then fail to respect another 14 days of at home quarantine (which has happened as we all know) then it just causes more cases and the higher possibility of community transmission now that so many people are out and about.

    They need to keep those being quarantined in the hotels for the full 28 days. I know it will cost more but it wont cost THAT much more. If they’d have already done that then we wouldn’t have had a single new case for just about 3 weeks now and an entire town wouldn’t have had to have been caged in. Like I say, I think they’ve been brilliant with their work but there is an obvious hole in their strategy here that they need to address.

    1. It’s getting more and more difficult, and so many people with no work, no money, and no help what so ever from the government, the word Venezuela keeps popping up in post, and I really can see it heading down those lines, and I fear for this island.

      1. No help whatsoever from the government. Are you sure Tobi…?

      2. I fear for it too. I don’t think it will be like Venezuela with hyper inflation etc but it looks like a lot of people are really going to struggle.

        I really hope the local government can find a way to play the potential ace up their sleeve that 99% of places don’t have, namely that Madeira COULD eradicate the infection and provide money spending long term stayers / covid escaping ‘refugees’ or whatever we want to call them, the chance to live a far more normal life with at least far less chance of being infected than they would elsewhere (assuming they would spend adequate time in quarantine first.)

        Madeira has on average roughly 20,000 tourists staying each week normally. Is it overly far fetched to think that 20,000 or so people from Europe (which has a population of three quaters of of a billion) who could afford to support themselves for 3 / 6 months / a year couldn’t be persuaded to come and stay here with the obvious benefits to them above being on the mainland?! IMO this is going to be a whole new industry soon for those few places fortunate enough to be in a position to be able to provide it and from looking at the situation everywhere else in Europe nowhere is better placed to provide it and benefit from it than Madeira.

        1. They need to start getting the domestic tourism back first. There are hundreds of people wanting to come that have properties here, they can come for 4-6, months if they wanted, do there two weeks in the home, they they are free to spend money here plus they will already be spending while in quarantine, people getting shopping for them and ordering takeaways etc. This in my opinion would be a very good start and a good testvto see if the virus comes with them.

  6. These people were put on mandatory quarantine two weeks ago when their family was found to be infected. At the time they were tested negative but because they shared the same household as people who had been infected they were put in quarantine aswell. That said, being found positive today does not mean the incubation period was 14 days. If they were tested 1 or 2 days after getting in the hotel they could have been tested positive. But because they need to do the mandatory quarantine wheter the test is positive or negative than they are only tested 14 days after. It’s not like they were tested everyday since two weeks ago and only now gave positive. No, the incubation could have ocurred only one or two days after going to the hotel.

  7. That’s too bad but at least we still know the source of the transmission (more people were bound to be infected in the village), they were close contacts to the brothers, and it has nothing to do with the gradual reopening that has just begun this week.

  9. Se continuarem a construir na Madeira , de um modo q não autorizam p ex em Jersey….. a Madeira deixa de ser uma atração turistica p se tornar um refugio e sem graça e onde deixam de viver portugueses..
    Já ultraoassou n.a. m opinião o limite macio de construção…a partir daqui perde qualidade…

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