“Madeira will vaccinate the entire population that wants to be vaccinated”

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The statement was made by Pedro Ramos, the regional secretary with the Health portfolio.

During the ceremony for the awarding of diplomas to newly licensed nurses from the S. José de Cluny School of Nursing, the government official did not value the ‘break’ in the quantities of vaccines foreseen by Janssen and stressed that the list of vaccinated persons included young people aged 12 and over.

Regarding the imported covid-19 cases that have been registered in the last few days in the Region, Pedro Ramos did not clarify whether they are people already vaccinated or not, nor whether they have arrived in Madeira benefiting from the green corridor. Still, he was keen to point out that such cases have been filtered out upon arrival.

In this context, he recalled that “Madeira is not closed. Madeira is not in confinement. Madeira manages to control the entire situation and is seeking to control the entire situation of the evolution of the pandemic even at this stage in which we are”.

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16 Responses

  1. It would be really interesting to know how many double vaccinated people with covid cases on the Island ? it’s all kept under wraps.?

    1. Steve, are we all going to die? I know we are all going to die. But are we all going to die, like in one month? Please tell us.

    2. Why, would it be really interesting ? My guess is very low. What would it mean ? What would it tell us ?

  2. Although the current effectiveness of the vaccines are 95% this actually corresponds to a virus breakthrough of 0.4% expand this to hospitalisations or morbidity and you will find you are more likely to get run over in Funchal than die this way! Its really not an issue.

  3. The effectiveness of the vaccines in nowhere 95% for the delta varian if you have had two jabs. About 60% for AZ and about 80% for the mRNA ones. The infection rate would really be cut down if everyone would wear masks in public places and socially separate. But tourists seem to think we’re on holiday we don’t need to do this anymore.
    Whilst we all know we will all die one day, dying of Covid 19 is a very unpleasant, painful way to go.
    But no need to worry, our leaders in Madeira tell us that all is under control.

    2. The way some people go on you would would think the bodies were piling up in the streets!! The death rate associated with Covid is virtually ZERO now. Those who do die have other serious conditions anyway. More people are dying from flu in the UK compared to Covid.

    3. Richard, reading through the comments I reckon you can consider yourself burned ♨️♨️

  4. Exactly Antonio. It’s easy to be critical when Madeirans don’t know how they are going to pay their mortgage/ rent and feed their children.

  5. Been saying this for ever, the locals have major issues getting through their everyday problems of having no income, any financial cushions they had are long gone and built up debt is a major problem.

  6. Absolutely agree Harry. It must be wonderful living in a gilded cage not having to worry about surviving while all around you are desperate .
    Some people have no empathy whatsoever.

  7. Richard Greaves, one assumes by your name you are an ex pat on a nice pension who has decided to move here, if you are so critical on the way the Government are trying to keep everything going whilst still getting as many back to work as possible perhaps you should consider moving back from whence you came and have Boris or AN OTHER stagger blindly from one major mess up to another and continue to blow their own trumpets on how well they’ve done. As the saying goes…. If you don’t like the heat don’t stay in the kitchen and if you don’t like what’s going on here you are welcome to leave at any time. I doubt you’ll find another place in Europe that has managed so well to mostly keep the virus controlled and still let as many back to work as is possible.

  8. 100% agree Jessica. I suggested the same to Richard a couple of days ago .The alternative is , he could lock himself in his gilded cage , arrange food deliveries and wait until Covid disappears which we know isn’t going to happen .

  9. There really are some people on this blog who are crazy. Perhaps they’ve got long Covid and now have neurological problems.
    It’s quite clear when hearing these people why the UK has suffered the worse in Europe due to Covid-19.

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