Madeira has 23 more cases and 15 recovered

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Today, the Regional Directorate of Health reports 23 new cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, “so that the region now counts 10,074 confirmed cases” of covid-19. He adds: “These are 14 imported cases (7 from the United Kingdom, 5 from the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region, 1 from Cape Verde and 1 from Morocco) and 9 cases of local transmission. Epidemiological investigations are ongoing.

This Saturday, July 24th, there are still “15 more recovered cases to report. The RAM now counts 9,767 recovered cases of covid-19”, he emphasizes, and there are regrets “a total of 73 deaths associated” with the disease and, therefore, “there are 234 active cases, of which 91 are imported cases and 143 are of local transmission”.

Of these active cases, “7 people are hospitalized at Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital”, all in Polyvalent Units and none in the dedicated Intensive Care Unit and “65 people are isolated in a dedicated hotel unit, the rest remaining in their own accommodation”.

 

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15 Responses

    1. Are the UK Covid cases infecting others travelling on the same plane, I wonder. On a different subject; we posted 8 postcards in Madeira on the 3rd June to the UK. None arrived until the 9th July, the final one arrived on the 24th July. We go to Madeira every year and there is always a similar delay. I wonder why!!

  2. I’m with Ian. Are these cases from the UK, tourists being picked up at the airport after testing. High numbers from the UK this week . Or are they Madeira returning from their UK? Anyway of finding out. Don’t fancy being on an aircraft with covid positive passengers sat near me for up to four hours.

  3. It’s been 18 months now and for some reason some people still think that the airplanes are a focus of infection. Madeira has this very well documented because it was one if the first regions in the world to monitor and control EVERY entry. And the chances of getting contaminated in-flight are slim.

  5. No not slim. The chance of catching it on a plane depend on the air filters that the airline uses. There is a good standard from SAE International about air filters. In essence there are 3 qualities. One is good and filters out viruses of a certain size. These are the most expensive. The lower cost filters do not filter out the virus. If you are with a low cost airline they perhaps don’t use the most expensive filter?
    My wife caught Covid-19 last year on a flight from Madrid to Lisbon from the man sitting next to her who was sweating, coughing and sneezing all over. At that time masks were not mandatory on aircraft. It’s an illusion that you cannot catch the virus on a plane, Why do we all have to fill in entry forms for the country we are travelling to including our seat number, and then when someone is confirmed on arrival, say in Madeira, to test positive, they don’t put all nearby passengers into 10 days quarantine. Why fill in entry forms?
    Again, it seems to come down to hé airline. Most won’t let you board without a negative test before hand or having had two vaccinations.
    A statistic worth knowing about the arrivals who test positive would be how many have been double vaccinated, given that double vaccinated people in the UK are now dying of the delta variant.

    1. As you say your wife was not wearing a mask nor the person on the side. You also say that person was sneezing and coughing all the time. In that conditions, you can get infected at supermarket, at the bank, at the post office, on the bench in the park. The airplane does not add anything to that equation.

    2. I always change the air filter on my 1979 Kawasaki Z650 every year with a good quality one and I haven’t contracted Covid yet.

    3. Please explain what we could gather from the information you ask, do you only want to know the details on British flights ? I would guess the number is too small to gather anything from. Example, on a Monday there are 14 flights from the UK, average, each, say, 150 passengers, On the Monday 19th July there were 3 cases from the UK . 14 X 150 = 2100. Three cases out of 2,100 passengers. The most important thing ? Because of the system they were discovered to be positive and placed in isolation.

  6. To add to what Antonio has said, if aircraft were a major problem of transmission , why haven’t we heard that flight attendants and pilots are dropping like flies??

  7. … Plus if being on the same plane as a positive person or people is such a Danger then Why? are the cases not increasing Dramatically ?? ,, after all large numbers people of all ages and backgrounds in Madeira are being tested Daily and planes carrying positive cases have been arriving Daily for Months but still Paranoia Prevails for some ??? …

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