Due to the revised curfew over the next two weekends (9th and 10th and 16th and 17th), public transport company, Horários do Funchal has announced that they will be readjusting some of their bus timetables from 6 pm onwards.
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This afternoon, the Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Fino, travelled to Machico, in order to personally see the damage caused by the storm, most of which is in the Ribeira Grande area.
In a press release, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque stated that during the next two weekends (9th - 10th and the 16th - 17th) the curfew will be brought forward from 11 pm to 6 pm. This means that no one, is allowed to be on a public road between 6 pm - 5am, unless any of the below exceptions apply.
The recent inauguration of the Quinta Falcão Housing Complex, signaled the beginning of a municipal community composting project which aims to promote the recovery and use of organic waste in housing estates.
As a result of today's bad weather and storm damage affecting the parish of Machico, the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque has offered government aid to help with the cleanup operation.
As the bad weather continues and is set to get worse the Civil Protection Service (SRPC, IP-RAM) has issued a set of guidelines.
This afternoon the Regional Government (RG) decided to close all the schools in the municipality of Santa Cruz.
Today, the 6th of January, the municipalities of Funchal, Santa Cruz, Câmara de Lobos and Porto Santo registered the highest number of positive Covid cases. During today's bulletin 37 new cases were registered in Funchal, 26 in Santa Cruz, 14 in Câmara de Lobos and 10 new infections in Porto Santo were confirmed.
The Regional Government has passed a resolution regarding the restriction of movement. The resolution states that “as of 00:00 on the 5th of January 2021, while the state of emergency is in force or there are municipalities at high risk, travelling on public roads is prohibited in the Autonomous Region of Madeira between 11 pm and 5 am, with the following exceptions:”
The Regional Government has approved a resolution that sits safely within the current exceptional measures aimed at containing the pandemic in order to safeguard the public health of the population, and with a view to not spreading the virus.
The Municipality of Porto Santo issued a statement this morning expressing its particular concern over the evolution of the pandemic in the Region, as well as the number of cases of infection that have occurred in the last 48 hours, in Porto Santo.
The Regional Secretary for Education (SRE) released this afternoon the covid-19 test schedule for teachers and non-teachers.
With the festive season over, the new confinement measures will come into force, especially as yesterday the island registered 99 new positive cases, 93 of which were local transmissions.
The Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA) has placed the south coast and the mountainous regions of Madeira under a red warning for rain.
In a tense press conference, the President of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque categorically stated that if people do not start behaving themselves and take the situation seriously, he will have no option but to construct containment fences, and restrict movement from one parish to another.