Tourist fractures leg, and tests positive for Covid-19

Tobi Hughes·
Covid-19Madeira News

The Covid-19 team of Madeiran Volunteer Firefighters is currently transporting – at 3.30 pm this Tuesday – a foreign tourist in his 60s infected with coronavirus who was at the Hospital Particular da Madeira and who will be sent to the Polyvalent Unit of Covid- 19 at the Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital, AgoraMadeira found out.

As it is possible to know, the man has a fractured leg and was admitted last night, Monday, at the Private Hospital Particular da Madeira. Before admission, the tourist took the covid-19 test and this morning he received a result that he was positive.

The protocol in this type of situations was then activated, and all close contacts will be contacted.

From Agora Madeira

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8 Responses

  1. So he arrived here tested negative? Then later on he tested positive. Makes me worry how many more there are over here . It’s going to happen, so difficult to stop.

    2. Yes indeed! But, as Toby replied “we will deal with it when it happens”. That’s also a way to look at it ?

  2. Many people test negstive on arrival but will then test positive several days later. It takes 5 to 10 days after contact with Covid19 to show symptoms. Positive cases in UK are rising daily very fast.

  3. The Azores test people on arrival and again on day 6 if they stay that long. Seems one out of a few thousand initially negatives, test positive on the second test. One can assume that a few people a week would test positive here, if they were tested again. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that just one test upon arrival cannot keep things under control good enough to not escalate. So far Madeira has managed quite well and I’m sure they will consider further measures if the case rate at the originating places continues to grow as unchecked as it does at the moment.

  4. It is likely that there are tourists going around with the virus as we speak and tourists eat out a lot. I see that Madeiran’s have relaxed too much on the restaurant services. Every time I go out, I see restaurant/cafe servers touching their masks constantly, wearing it under the nose or by their chins and I don’t see them disinfecting their hands at all throughout the whole time I’m there. In my humble opinion, these will be our potential super spreaders. Let’s start making a difference and point out to our servers how we’d rather they put their mask up, stop touching it and disinfect their hands between clients… If I don’t see a difference soon, I’m definitely going to stop eating out all together…

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