In a press statement by the Caniço Pharmacy (Farmácia do Caniço) administration, they confirm that they will be closed to the public for a week after a member of staff tested positive for Covid. The case was identified last Friday, the 6th of November, and the pharmacy was immediately closed.
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The Mayor of Funchal, Miguel Silva Gouveia has confirmed that the Câmara do Funchal is trying to do everything possible to ensure that this year’s Market Night on the 23rd of December goes ahead as planned.
Victor Prior, the director of the Madeira Delegation of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), expects Madeira to be hit by tropical storm Theta from Friday afternoon onwards.
In the first provisional analysis of the effectiveness of a vaccine being developed by Pfizer and Biontech evidence has emerged indicating a +90% success rate in preventing non-SARS-CoV-2 infected participants from catching the virus.
Ivo Silva, the Chairman of the Board of the Union of Office, Commerce and Services Workers of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (SITAM), has indicated that the Câmara of Funchal is indifferent “to the problems that affect three thousand workers, and has proposed that during the Christmas season retail establishments should close at 7 pm on weekdays, at 2 pm on Saturdays and not open at all on Sundays or public holidays.”
The President of the Regional Government will, on Tuesday the 10th of November at 4 pm, attend the launch of the Institute of Wine, Embroidery and Handicrafts of Madeira (IVBAM) Christmas Campaign entitled 'Offer what is UNIQUE this Christmas.'
The new pioneering AT MicroProtect technology, which inactivates 99.97% of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in the air in a minute, has now successfully managed to destroy three of the four tuberculosis bacteria strains.
Further to the President's press conference this morning. The new rules and regulations are as follows:
During a visit to a school in Caniço, the President of the Regional Government was asked whether nightclubs would be forced to close again. However, Miguel Albuquerque refused to be drawn into the debate saying that he will announce the new restrictive measures himself tomorrow from Quinta Vigia.
Moleculas Soberbas, a start-up company which aims to undertake research on deflamine, a protein extracted from lupine seeds which is believed to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties, has been given the green light to create a small biscuit factory in Madeira.
According to media outlet JN, Società Foggiana, one of the "most brutal and violent Italian mafias," laundered 16 million euros through two companies based in Madeira, through a scheme that allowed Società Foggiana to benefit from European Union Community Funds intended to support rural development.
Madeira wins 'Best European Island Destination' for the seventh year running.
The Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa today (02.11) proposed to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, that a state of emergency be decreed "of a preventive nature" to "eliminate doubts" about the Government's action to protect citizens in relation to the pandemic.
Porto Santo is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.