MADEIRA WITH 14 MORE POSITIVE CASES, NINE OF WHICH ARE LOCALLY TRANSMITTED

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Today there are 14 new positive cases to report. These are five imported cases (two from Poland, one from Germany, one from the Czech Republic and one from Switzerland) and nine cases of local transmission.

Today there are six more recovered cases to report.

Two health professionals, working in the private sector, in the area of ​​dental medicine, are among the 14 positive cases registered today by the health authorities of the Region.

Of these 14 new cases, nine are locally transmitted. Among them is the case of a young student from an educational establishment in the municipality of Santa Cruz.

According to the IASAÚDE report, the school was informed, having activated the respective contingency plan.

There are also records of 61 new situations that are currently being studied by the health authorities, seven from the airport screening operation and 54 related to contacts with positive cases or situations reported to the SRS24 line. Epidemiological investigations are ongoing.

From Jornal Madeira

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14 Responses

  1. Looks like it’s getting into the local population, not just incoming tourists anymore.
    Sad, but not unexpected.

    1. I am sorry to have to say but…the reality is that the incoming tourists brought the virus back to the island. On the 1th of July we had just 2 active cases. From that date on, tourists were welcome again. It’s very logical and was to be expected it would start to spread among the locals again. And now it has reached a state that it keeps spreading from one local to another. I am afraid that we’ll have to face a big disaster after the Holidays. I am not surprised, just very sad.

      1. The island is not self-sufficient and consequently, could not cut itself off from the rest of the world. The authorities have done an excellent job at keeping the infection at bay so far. Vaccines are getting closer. It just needs people to stick to wearing masks, washing hands regularly, keeping to social distancing rules etc.

  2. Of course the tourists brought it back to the island. If the island can’t survive while remaining shut off from the rest of the world, it had no choice but to reopen, and cases were bound to be brought in. No one is to be blamed for local transmissions (viruses spread, it’s the way it is), but if you insist on blaming someone, Lois, the responsibility goes both to the tourists and the locals who aren’t wearing masks, are wearing them inappropriately and ineffectively, aren’t obeying social distancing, are walking around any old way in commercial establishments banging into people or not keeping their distance in shops…merely bringing it here is not enough, there has to be contact for spreading. Like I said, I don’t think there’s much to be gained from blaming, but the tourists didn’t do this alone.

  3. I agree entirely with L’s comments. It’s the same in the UK but on a far greater scale. The idiots who go without masks, wear them incorrectly, don’t wash their hands and don’t keep a safe distance are the ones to blame, no matter who they are. They are usually the ones who are annoyed when they are deprived of their freedom, and yet if everyone followed the rules, things would become better so much more quickly. Why that is so hard for them to understand Is beyond me.

  4. Don’t worry, it will all be over by Easter 2021. Everyone will be vaccinated by then and normality will return. The Pfizer vaccine will be quickly followed by multiple others that use similar methodology. Expect massive global vaccination programmes leading up to and following Christmas. In the meantime stick to the rules.

    1. Fat Chance. It took 13 years to eradicate smallpox even with a mass vaccination programme. The world population has doubled since then and there are far more hostile locations than there were back then.

  5. It seems to me that here is an obvious way to substantially reduce new positive cases. That is to keep incoming passengers quarantined until the test is shown to be negative.

  8. Who of you would have the vaccine if offered in the first phase ? I ask because when I have asked friends and family , the response is about 50/50 at the moment .

  9. pessimists all of you. Cheer up and don’t worry, you will find something else to moan about after the pandemic is over

  11. Let’s hope the Pfizer vaccine is a good as advertised but a press release of preliminary data via a press release does not mean that we can put our concerns aside. Best case scenario is that it actually works as initial data suggests and that widespread availability (in developed countries) is no more than 6 months away. Also need to to see how long it provides immunity, how many people actually opt to get immunized, and how well it works on high risk populations, especially older folks who are often less responsive to vaccines.
    Mainland Europe and UK are currently experiencing an exponential increase in cases and it appears the worst may be yet to come in terms of deaths. Hospitals are again in danger of becoming overwhelmed. As has been noted Madeira to date has done a good job of protecting the islands population but vigilance must be maintained. If infection rates in Madeira were per capita the same as mainland Portugal Madeira would be experiencing 100 plus new cases per day and 1 to 2 deaths per day. These numbers would be much worse if the infection rate per capita was equal to the infection rate in Poland, France, UK, Czech Republic, and many other countries in Europe. These are also the countries from which thousands of tourists are arriving from. Doubt Madeira has medical facilities to handle these numbers.
    We are likely facing the worst 6 months of the pandemic. Tourists are obviously a potential source of new infections but so are returning students and other residents who travel between Europe and Madeira. Seems like the only answer is to tighten testing requirements along with strict quarantine restrictions for anyone traveling to Madeira, along with stiff penalties for anyone not following public safety guidelines. Without these steps community spread is almost inevitable.
    Covid 19 is extremely contagious and any community is only as safe as its weakest links.

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