TWO MORE CASES IN THE REGION AND THREE SUSPECTS

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

There are two more cases of covid-19 in the Region, detected at Madeira airport, IASAÚDE announced.

A young man in his 20s and a man in his 30s: one from the UK and one from Germany.

The same source says that there are also three more cases under study.

There are now 33 active cases, of which 32 are imported cases identified in the context of surveillance activities implemented at Madeira Airport. The region now accounts for a cumulative total of 140 confirmed cases

Regarding the isolation of positive cases, 23 people are isolated in a dedicated hotel unit, 7 in their own accommodation, 2 are hospitalized in the Polyvalent Inpatient Unit dedicated to covid-19 and 1 remains in the dedicated Intensive Care Unit.

To date, 18 373 people are being monitored by the health authorities of the various municipalities in the region, using the MadeiraSafeToDiscover application, 7564 of these people are under active surveillance.

From Journal Madeira

 

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8 Responses

  1. There will be more virus cases unless the procedure is modified. Ideally, WHO and IATA should apply standard world wide rules. This would enable to restart the air traffic industry safely and swiftly. The following suggestions can easily be adapted for other transports, movements, and areas if common sense is applied.
    Every traveller must take the test within 24 hrs prior to departure. Hopefully, it will soon be possible to get test results almost on the spot.
    The negative test – linked to ID docs – must be presented at check-in, and to the authorities at destinaton.
    Every traveller must take another test on arrival and must be quarantined while waiting for the negative test result.
    Every destination must provide free of charge tests on arrival. After all, this is in the interest of safeguarding the local population.
    It’s obvious that no traveller can arrive without a negative test. This would stop some smart people from saving money and arrive as positive cases possibly having infected other travellers.

  2. In my opinion the Madeirian government has to make it mandatory for tourist to take a test before they travel to the island and then prove that they have done it. There are too many people coming into the island and testing positive (I know its only 32 and still early days).

    All it takes is one person to disobey the rules and the residents of Madeira lifes will be at risk and the island will go into lockdown again.

    1. Problem is, where do you get a test and results back within 72hrs? The NHS is supposed to only test people showing symptoms.

  3. Everyone’s concern is legitimate, of course. But technically, procedures demanding that every air traveller has a negative covid-19 test report of no older than 72 our even less hours, is not possible at present. Many countries struggle to have even the people showing symptoms tested quickly. I know for a fact that there are countries that won’t even give you a written test report, only a phone call telling you the result.
    If Madeira would have to wait for such measures to become possible, it will lose too much of its livelihood.

    On top of that, we can see that the Madeiran health authority IASAúde has things very well in hand. Over just under 8 weeks, the number of people that were found covid-19 positive is very limited indeed, compared to the total number of travellers. And all have been identified and quarantined either at home or in a dedicated hotel. I think, under the circumstances there is no better option at present. The two above options are simply not feasible at present.

  4. i fail to understand why the age and nationality of those who test positive is made public. It serves no rational, reasonable purpose that I can see, but it is a form of stigmatisation. In my country that is not done. I doubt that the individuals in question would consent to being identified that way.
    Cifers should be published, of course, and perhaps whether the positive cases are domestic or foreign/tourists.
    Age and other data is relevant in medical analysis/research and is referred to cumulatively when new information and insights about the virus are published. I find the practice in Madeira strange and wrong.

    1. The age, because the virus is more dangerous to the elderly, the nationality because it is a world wide problem and the public should know the cases are coming from. I can’t see any stigmatisation and would be quite happy to have my details published.

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