Less than 1% of travelers to Madeira reported positive

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Since July of last year, when testing begun at the airport in Madeira, more than 75 thousand tests have been carried out, in laboratories contracted on the continent and in the Azores, to passengers destined for Madeira. Of these, only 585 passengers bound for the Region were infected with Covid-19, this is less than 1%.

As for tourism, the British are back in force. The United Kingdom has 106 flights and 20 thousand seats in June and Madeira leads the demand for travel in Tui UK.

Also this morning the first easyJet flight from the UK, from London Gatwick, is due to land at 11.40.

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  1. So, with all the whining we hear from some people about infected Tourists pouring on to the island and going around spreading disease breaking all the rules etc etc as suspected all along — total baloney. Less than 1% of incoming tourists infected and apart from a handful that sneaked out for a short while, all of these were quarantined.

    Tourism is vital to get the islands economy back up and running.

    1. Totally agree, I’ve started to notice lack of distancing in the supermarket, but give the cashier her due, she makes them stand back! With the testing in place and the need to have a test before leaving the UK no positive UK tourist will be allowed to travel so it will be interesting to see where the “outside infections” come from.

  2. Let’s hope the 200 new infected (1%) get detected and then maybe they won’t kill another 18 people here The track and trace in Madeira has been world class

    1. As the figure of 1% is the total of all tourists, from all countries, not from the UK only, why are you assuming that from the predicted 20,000 from the UK arriving in June there will be 200 testing positive ? The figure of 1% is from last July to the present day. Can I point out that for the last five months the UK has carried out a world beating vaccination programme and that apart from possibly the tourists from wherever, who take up the Airport Test, then no one arriving in Madeira will, theoretically have the virus.
      As the figure of 1% is the total of all tourists, from all countries, not from the UK only, why are you assuming that from the predicted 20,000 from the UK arriving in June there will be 200 testing positive ? The figure of 1% is from last July to the present day. Can I point out that for the last five months the UK has carried out a world beating vaccination programme and that apart from possibly the tourists from wherever, who take up the Airport Test, then no one arriving in Madeira will, theoretically have the virus.
      As the figure of 1% is the total of all tourists, from all countries, not from the UK only, why are you assuming that from the predicted 20,000 from the UK arriving in June there will be 200 testing positive ? The figure of 1% is from last July to the present day. Can I point out that for the last five months the UK has carried out a world beating vaccination programme and that apart from possibly the tourists from wherever, who take up the Airport Test, then no one arriving in Madeira will, theoretically have the virus.

  3. Can whoever is running your track and trace pop over to the UK and show our government how to do it properly! Vast sums again spent and still not working

  4. Do you have a figure for how many of these 585 were actually brought over from the UK?

  5. It is even better than you think – read carefully – it is 1 % of the ones that have been tested. The ones already coming with a negative PCR test were not tested. So it is far less than 1 % of all people who arrived.

  6. Tobi, after seeing my last screw up, I’d love the ability to edit comments.

    1. George, me too but WordPress doesn’t have a facility where posters can edit their comments. Some bulletin board/forum packages do, but with those you have to have an account, with WordPress you do not need an account to be able to post as you supply credentials each time you post.

  7. These numbers are specific to the laboratories in mainland Portugal only. Travellers to Madeira can get a test in mainland Portugal and Azores before travelling to Madeira. And among the 75,000 that had a test pre-departure to Madeira, 585 had a positive result.

    A different thing is the number of people who had a positive test at Madeira airport at arrival. 1037 have had a positive test of which 316 are from mainland Portugal and 272 from UK. These two countries are the largest contributors.

    1. Accepting the two countries make a large part of visitor numbers. It would be interesting to see the figures in percentage terms, not just for mainland Portugal and the UK but other foreign visitors.

  8. Oh dear, all those numbers. I hate maths, lol! Anyway, we’ve been double-vaxxed but we’re still not flying to anywhere yet, I’m afraid, not least because prices are being hiked and we simply don’t want to mingle with airport hordes just yet. See you in 2022!

  9. Still some confusion about arriving in Madeira. Apparently some on easyJet flight were told proof they had two vaccines not enough and they had to have a negative pcr test.

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