42 New Cases This Saturday

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Regional Directorate of Health reported today 42 new cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 in RAM, so that the Region now counts 10,459 confirmed cases of covid-19.

There are 9 imported cases (6 from the UK, 2 from Spain and 1 from the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region) and 33 cases of local transmission. Epidemiological investigations are ongoing.

On the other hand, another 18 recovered cases should be noted. The RAM now counts 10,124 cases recovered from covid-19.

To date, the region accounts for a total of 75 deaths associated with covid-19.

There are 260 active cases, of which 90 are imported cases and 170 are local transmission.

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11 Responses

  1. Why are there so many cases from the UK when they should all be negative before leaving the UK

    1. Safe Madeira allows travelers to arrive in Madeira without a PCR test. If they have not been vaccinated they are tested at the airport. If proved positive they are placed in quarantine. As long as this happens, does it matter whether they have had a test in the UK ? Their island, their rules.

  2. Local transmission is worrying possibly also does not the vaccinated individuals arriving on the island with no PCR test spreading the virus.

  3. I don’t understand how BA passengers are allowed to get on the plane at Heathrow. I thought that they all had to have a PCR test before they left UK?

    1. If you read the rules for Madeira like many others should, and it’s been said a thousand times before if you have recovered from covid on the last 180 days or have both vaccines, then you don’t need a test.

  4. Because that’s the rules!!! You can join a flight from UK without a negative PCR test, and get tested at Madeira airport (isolating until you get emailed a negative test). BA understand this, EasyJet don’t! Look at VisitMadeira site that clearly explains rules for entry here. Of course by flying here without a negative test you run the risk you are positive. Then you get stuck here in isolation until you test negative. It’s really not very complicated and Tobi has written pages on this subject already.

    1. My apologies, I should have said apart from my comment on Easyjet everything else you said was correct.

  5. I arrived in Madeira on July 5 from Bristol, where I was asked have you had a Covid test ? My answer was, no, I intend to have one at Funchal when I arrive. Thank you very much Sir. Have a good flight. As far as I know that has not changed.

  6. So….is there absolutely no risk of contracting the virus from a passenger who is potentially infectious?? (Eye-rolling). Plus we know that people aren’t isolating as they should. We also all know by now that people who have already been vaccinated can still become infected. The symptoms might be less severe but as we also all now know there will be long-term effects regardless! If we keep letting people in without a negative PCR test it’ll only increase the spread as shown in our rising numbers again. We really cannot afford another lockdown, not economically neither socially. We’re a small island. Large numbers of us used to find work outside the island, especially in the UK, not after Brexit (still a sore point with me. I have friends and family here who will never be able to open up their businesses again nor work again. It’s all FUCKING UP….again, pardon my Portuguese….

    1. There certainly won’t be anymore lockdowns, and if you think it a lot that less than 1% of the island is active at the moment and worried of catching the virus, then just keep yourself safe. The island has done so well for a reason, and continues to do so….

    2. Madeira controls horribly Covid from entering in the islands but it is the tourist destimation with less incidence in whole Europe. Less incidence than Algarve, South Spain, Balearic, Canaries, Azores, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Malta, Mainland Greece, etc . So if authorithies are doing it so wrong, and if madeireans are doing so wrong, how come they are in better position than all the others? Must be a miracle!

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