After all the 'Who Hah!' about 17,500 vaccines arriving on a TAP flight last night, it would appear that there has been an accountancy failure as only 11,500 arrived.
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The Confederation of Tourism of Portugal (CTP), in partnership with Publituris, is organising a webinar to be held on the 9th of February, starting at 10 am on 'O Estado do Turismo' (The State of Tourism). The event, which will be broadcast simultaneously on CTP's Facebook and Publituris website, aims to debate the current situation of Tourism, as well as to point out the challenges of achieving a lasting economic recovery."
Today, the PSD parliamentary group denounced the exclusion of the autonomous regions of Portugal from accessing the Banco Português de Fomento's Covid-19 Economy Support line the aim of which is to help both industry and tourism.
The Regional Government, through the Regional Directorate of Heritage, is looking for 35 residential properties to rent in Funchal, Câmara de Lobos and Caniço.
Chinese relatives of the first victims of Covid-19 are being pressurised by the Chinese authorities into not talking to any World Health Organisation (WHO) researchers who are currently in Wuhan as part of an investigation into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The Eventual Inquiry Commission on 'The Public Service Concession Contract" called “Administration and Exploration of the Madeira Free Zone (MFZ) or International Business Centre of Madeira (IBIC)" and the acquisition of share capital of "Sociedade de Desenvolvimento da Madeira, SA," today unanimously approved the methodology by which the commission will hear evidence from four witnesses.
The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have been disastrous for millions of people. All over the world, businesses are closing their doors, more people are suddenly unemployed and poverty is growing at an alarming rate. National economies face the spectre of the worst recession since the 1930s, or possibly ever.
The Municipality of Santa Cruz is currently supporting 72 families that are in quarantine or recovering from Covid-19, as part of the support programme for monitoring families who have been seriously affected by the virus within the municipality.
The president of PS Madeira, Paulo Cafôfo congratulated Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on his re-election as President of the Republic, saying that the 'Portuguese had 'chosen stability above all else.'
The pioneering AT MicroProtect technology to combat Covid-19 and microbiological contamination, developed by a consortium led by BLC3, will be installed, for the first time in the world, at Generis Farmacêutica.
The Regional Government may decide to prohibit people from consuming alcoholic beverages while standing at the bar, as a way of controlling and disciplining both patrons and bar owners during the pandemic. This will be one of the new rules to be discussed tomorrow during the Government Council Meeting.
The estimated cost of the Christmas Day storm, in terms of damage, is in the region of €40.6 million.
Eduardo Jesus, the Regional Secretary for Tourism and Culture, said today that digital nomads have become an an international trend, and that the pandemic has created a different culture, that is, people want stay and work in countries where they feel safe.
Madeira's emblematic, Belmond Reid's Palace Hotel, which survived the First World War and the Spanish Flu, has unfortunately not survived the pandemic, and officially closes on the 1st of February.