52 new cases this Saturday

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Autonomous Region of Madeira registers this Saturday 52 new cases of infection by the coronavirus, as well as the recovery of 41 patients.

According to the bulletin of the Regional Directorate of Health, the new infections are 11 imported cases (7 from the UK, 2 from Lisbon, 1 from Spain and 1 from the Dutch Caribbean) and 41 cases of local transmission.

In terms of places of residence, the 52 new cases have the following distribution: 17 from Funchal, 8 from Santana, 7 from Santa Cruz, 5 from Câmara de Lobos, 5 from Porto Santo, 1 from Ponta do Sol and 1 from Machico, 8 of which reside outside our archipelago.

To date, the Region continues to account for a total of 75 deaths associated with Covid-19 and there are now 384 active cases in the Region, of which 83 are imported cases and 301 are of local transmission. Regarding the isolation of active cases, there are seven people hospitalized at the Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital (6 in polyvalent units and one in the intensive care unit dedicated to Covid-19)

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10 Responses

  1. Rather than repeat ourselves with masks and social distancing, let’s try a different route. Yes, the virus should still be taken seriously. Yes, there will be new variants and it would be stupid to ignore the present precautions but of Saturdays 52 new cases how many of the victims will progress to being seriously ill, how many will have more than a flu like illness for more than a few days.. Yes, I know even with double jabs they can and some will pass on the virus but of those who they infect we have to ask the same question, how many are going to be seriously ill, etc. Surely the death and hospitalization rates are what we should now be heeding. As Tobi commented a week ago he doesn’t give the daily hospital rates because they remain constant. As an 80 year old perhaps I should be more worried than I am for my chance of being infected and the outcome but right now the comments I read worry me about peoples mental state and attitude. How many are so worried that they are incapable of questioning our politicians and experts, how many are so perturbed by the petty, often unnecessary rules and regulations, the conflicting, ever changing advice, that they will not accept any advice given. The virus is with us, things will never be the same again, even with new better vaccines and treatments, Can’t we accept that and start thinking calmly and rationally.

    1. What a pleasure and a relief to read such a rational, common-sense post. Couldn’t agree more – thank you!

  2. Regularly numbers are quoted from the UK when, given the dates and flight patterns, I reckon they are coming from England! I would like to see numbers provided from Scotland and England as opposed to UK.

    2. This is an illustration of my worries of peoples mental attitudes. Just why would you like to know these details and what comfort would it give you to know ? What of Wales ?

  3. Now now, none of this Nationalistic talk please… The above on any count would be difficult to judge as there are only 2 weekly direct flights from Scotland so unless hundreds of Scots cross the borders to fly from Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Birmingham, East Midlands, Bristol, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stanstead guess we’ll never know and all of the above is highly unlikely and does it really matter anyway? No of course not especially as many are Portuguese who live in many parts of the UK.
    And what about the poor old Irish bless em from neither North nor South have one direct flight between them and have to get 2 flights to get here.

  4. Logically, because of the populations of Scotland and England and there only being two flights from Scotland there are going to be a greater number of English visitors to Madeira. I have no nationalistic grudge, I’m British, I really want to know an answer to my questions, Why would the lady like to know, what is self evident and what comfort would it give it her ?

  5. Exactly. Numbers are numbers no matter where they came from however we must remember that some positives are found inbound going back to UK from here maybe having spent time with their families here and quite a chunk of cases now are represented by positives from Porto Santo whose numbers are included in those for Madeira

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