47 new cases 30 recovered

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Madeira now has 47 more cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the Regional Directorate of Health.

Among the new positives, seven are imported cases – five from the United Kingdom, one from France and one from the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region – and the remaining 40 are cases of local transmission.

In addition, there are now another 30 recovered cases to report.

The Region thus accounts for 352 active cases, of which 66 are imported cases and 286 are of local transmission.

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  1. At the risk of being abused again, as I was talking about what Austria does about Covid 19, I will tell you about my family’s experience when going on holiday from Philadelphia to Costa Rica.
    In Philadelphia airport there are loud speaker announcements every 5 minutes. For those not wearing a mask properly covering both nose and mouth a $250 fine on the spot. For those not wearing a mask $500.
    In Miami airport wearing a mask is not obligatory and almost no one did.
    In Costa Rica wearing a mask in public places is obligatory, controlled by the police and everyone did.
    The infection rates in Pennsylvania, Florida and Costa Rica illustrate what is the best policy.
    As I’ve said before, why are there not large signs in Madeira airport telling visitors what the rules are in Madeira, and why are they not being enforced?
    Visitors seem to be under the illusion “I’ve been vaccinated twice” so I’m OK. Not true unfortunately.
    I leave it to all regular readers to hurl abuse at me again.

    1. The reasons that there are not the signs you demand at the Airport is that the Madeiran Health Authorities have not advised the Airport to do so. I’m sure they have taken professional advice. I don’t know why you single out visitors as being under the illusion that being vaccinated makes them OK, a goodly proportion of locals seem to have the same attitude. You seem to think that anyone not agreeing with you by not wearing a mask is in some way lacking in intelligence, perhaps they have a more open mind, I certainly don’t think they believe vaccination prevents them from contacting or passing on the disease.

    2. An interesting point. It has been demonstrated in numerous studies that clear, pragmatic guidance is much more effective than enforcement in influencing human behaviour and I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to information signs at the airport for tourists coming from countries that may all have subtly different rules. Leave the “on the spot” fines to more authoritarian countries.

      1. Yes true, I guess unless you really looked for the rules in place, tourists wouldn’t really know. As for fines, I don’t see that happening here.

  2. “The infection rates in Pennsylvania, Florida and Costa Rica illustrate what is the best policy”

    Death rate per 100k in Costa Rica: 1027

    Death rate per 100k in Madeira: 192

    Surely authorithies in Costa Rica know what they are doing and in Madeira they are not!

  3. Frustrating that the new case numbers have been greater than recovered ones for many days now.

    1. No, I really meant death rate.

      Infection rates without showing positivity rates mean nothing. Death rates and hospitalization rates give a clearer picture.

  6. How many of these cases are in Madeira and how many in Porto Santo? I assume the numbers given refer to the total of both islands?

    1. Yes both islands. Yesterday there were 10 new cases in Porto Santo.

      The link below shows the case count per county in the whole Madeira area for yesterday. If you alter the web address to reflect todays date later today or tommorrow then you can see the results released today and work out by comparing the two whereabouts the new cases are located (i.e. change the end of the link from 19-08-2021 to 20-08-2021 )

      https://covidmadeira.pt/publicacao/covid-19-relatorio-de-situacao-epidemiologica-na-ram-em-19-08-2021/

    2. Morning Phil, of the total number of active infections last night, 352, 80 of these are in Porto Santo. At present they have been confined to visitors to the Island but it appears in the last 24hrs to have crossed over to staff in two or three of the bars in the centre of town.

  7. I think the key point from Richard’s post is that if the rule of any city/region says ‘wear a mask’ it is helpful to remind people of the rule and to enforce it. Madeira is doing pretty well to manage the difficult balance of keeping the tourist economy afloat but not letting the virus run unchecked. We could do better – and making sure all visitors actually know the rules and are reminded of them is a small measure, easily implemented at the airport and in shopping malls. The emphasis should be on mask wearing as a social responsibility rather than for personal protection.

  8. I don’t have a problem with reminders to wear a mask when in shops,or crowds or to social distance, Madeiran bus drivers are quick to pull me up when I forget, and agree with you that Madeira has done exceptionally well dealing with the virus. What I object to is being harangued by a dogmatic someone who knows no more than I do, perhaps less, and spouts meaningless statistics at me.

  9. I think it is time to accept that the way of living during the pandemic has pleased a proportion of the world population and lots of people like Richard would like to keep living this way. Closed societies, little or no social interaction by law, borders closed, etc. I accept there are people who want to live this way. What I dont agree with is providing false statements to impose these ideas. Giving Costa Rica and Florida which have death rates 10 to 20 times worse than Madeira is one of these examples.

  10. I didn’t realise that almost 0.2% of Madeira’s population has died of Covid….are you sure Antonio?

    1. 192 deaths per 100k, means the absolute number of deahts in Madeira is 75. That means 0.02% of the population died of Covid. In UK for instance, 0.2% of the population died of Covid.

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