9 New cases for Madeira

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Today’s balance sheet – Thursday – 22 October – regarding covid19 in the autonomous region of Madeira.

> 3 new cases recovered.

> 9 new positive cases to report. These are 8 imported cases (5 from Poland, 1 from the United Kingdom, 1 from the Reg. Of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and 1 from the Reg. Norte of Portugal) and 1 case of local transmission, associated with a contact with a traveler who, after a short stay in RAM, returned to the origin, having tested positive later.

> 19 cases in study.

> Regarding the isolation of positive cases, 58 people are isolated in a dedicated hotel unit, 56 in their own accommodation and 1 patient is admitted to the Multipurpose Unit dedicated to covid-19.

> Madeira, the only region in the country with 0 deceased for covid-19. We continued to test, to be able to isolate and recover, protecting public health.

> The region now accounts for a cumulative total of 354 confirmed cases, with 115 active cases and 239 recovered.

Daniel Caires – 19h37
#MaisSaudeMaisMadeira
#Identify #Isolate #Recover

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3 Responses

  1. Unfortunately there was no reply to my question regarding Ct value of the PCR tests done in Portugal.
    I hope, that authorities of Madeira are aware on how to check passenger´s health and keep in mind, that PCR tests alone can not detect that a person is infectious, especially if those tests come from Berlin.

  2. Well done Madeira, would have been holidaying with you this year if we hadn’t been taken off jet2 flight schedule for 2020. We really love the island.

  3. The one thing I don’t get is why they allow residents to spend their quarantine and/or waiting for test-results at home instead of sending them to the same hotel as the tourists.
    If they just made sure that everyone who is not cleared via the necessary test procedures cannot leave isolation, they could basically guarantee that local transmission is never going to happen.

    As it is, it’s actually those residents who are endangering the island because, as we have seen multiple times, people are just not reliable about staying isolated when you let them go to their homes.

    I really don’t get what the thinking is there. If they are afraid of the cost of keeping a few residents in a hotel for 1-2 weeks, come on, the macroeconomic cost of harder restrictions becoming necessary because of a local cluster – let alone of an outbreak getting out of control – are higher by orders of magnitudes .

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