65,000 British tourists expected in Madeira between July and August

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

First off  come on England… 1-0

For now, the Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps the President of the Regional Government ‘only’ waiting for the evolution of the epidemiological situation. 13% of the active case are of the Delta Variant, which has been confirmed today.

Even more so at this stage where he announces the arrival of 65,000 British tourists, realizing that “in the next two months, 65,000 British citizens are expected to enter Madeira and Porto Santo.

Good news that he hopes does not mean an increase in positive cases in relation to the “residual” average of the last few weeks. But the warning remains: “If any more serious situation happens, we will take the necessary measures in order to keep the situation under containment and under control”.

As for the goal of group immunity, which he pointed to the end of the summer, he preferred not to risk validating or changing the target date, but stressing that “before it was 70%, now it is 85%” the percentage of immunization to guarantee immunity of group.

In this sense, it reinforces that the younger age groups will be included in the vaccination programs, also due to the emergence of “cases and transmission chains in the population that we believed to be more protected and which is currently also vulnerable to this variant, which are the youngest” .

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14 Responses

  1. Does anyone know how this compares with a normal year. Due to come in a couple of weeks.

    1. In number of available seats it is not far off a normal year. But only the real occupancy of the flights will tell how it compares.

  3. This is a very brilliant idea. The UK will have 50k if not more confimed cases at that time. All those Brits will bring a lot of the Delta variant to Madeira.

    1. The Delta variant will represent 90% of cases all across Europe in August. That is with or without Brits. Unless you are like stupid Merkel and think you can avoid the virus being dominant in Germany by blocking flights from Madeira.

    2. Of course it will, I’m arriving on July 5 and I consider I would be letting the side down if I wasn’t able to infect a few. Don’t write stupid statements.

  4. One thing is clear, people travelling spread the disease.
    Two shots of the AZ vaccine give 60% immunity to the delta variant so we will get a lot of into Madeira from people travelling in the middle of a pandemic for no essential reason.

      1. No I don’t.Just warn it is likely those flights will get cancelled. I can’t see the UK being in the middle of the next wave with a new variant and Madera letting many Brits in. Don’t shoot the messenger. .

    2. New Zealand. An island which is very little dependent on the “outside” world. They are able to ban and restrict flights effectively. I don’t know if people who live there are happy or not but suspect yes. Barely any Covid and all doors closed to outside. Seems a better bet to people like Richard to live there than in Madeira which is an island who cannot close the doors.

  5. The world will close down again unfortunately. it’s only a matter of time Madeira Portugal Azores will be added to UK red list sooner or later.

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