According to a Japanese news agency, a Japanese company, Kyodo, has developed an ultraviolet radiation lamp that inactivates the new coronavirus using wavelengths that are known to be harmless to humans.
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The Portuguese Red Cross (CVP) were called out to a hotel in Funchal over the weekend, after a 41-year-old male UK citizen, slashed his wrists while waiting for his Covid test results. The injuries were so severe, that he bled into several towels as he attempted to stop the bleeding, as the unknown weapon used sliced into the radial artery.
Madeiran Gilda Fernandes turned 100-years-old this week.
Responding to images of over crowded buses, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Horários do Funchal, Alejandro Gonçalves, re-emphasised that everything is under control and there is no reason for alarmism as the company is complying with the rules issued by the transport and health authorities.
Families whose children are in or moving into higher education living in Faial will receive support from the parish council.
The Advisory Committee for the Monitoring of the Special SIC Cetaceans 7Whales7 Programme met recently for the first time, with the Regional Secretary for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, to begin the process of preparing the document that will create rules and competences for the new SIC Cetacean Programme.
Sara Cerdas MEP, spokesperson and negotiator for the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, has called for a resolution on the coordination of health assessments and travel restrictions in the Schengen area.
A 38-year-old woman has been missing since early this afternoon (15.09), and although she has only been missing for a matter of hours, the family are genuinely concerned.
The President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, has announced that a new support measure for businesses will be implemented.
The Regional Government has allocated 12,720.00 euros to the Regional Red Cross delegation to contribute to the improvement of relief and emergency operations within the Region. More specifically, the programme aims to support the maintenance of Portuguese Red Cross ambulances.
Our COVID situation seems to have leveled off at around 47 cases. Tourists and residents, coming from abroad or from Lisbon, bring the disease. All incoming persons without a recent test are checked at the airport, and the infected are quickly identified. Whoever turns out to be positive, must either…
The instructive debate on the Monte tree disaster, that killed 13 people and injured 49, originally scheduled for Monday the 14th of September has been postponed until October.
ANIMAD says that it ‘simply cannot help anymore! As it cannot afford to pay for the ever-increasing costs of looking after 200 animals (food, medical care, cleaning, water, electricity, etc.), especially as their credit with the Veterinary Hospital has been frozen. Their Facebook message reads as follows: – “Since we…
The preliminary demographic data released by the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM), for the first six months of 2020 show that in the Autonomous Region of Madeira there were 485 more deaths than births (live births 883, deaths 1368).