In news that we hoped we wouldn't hear, today, the 26th day of being Covid-19 free a new case was confirmed on the island.
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Last Friday, the Vigilantes da Natureza (Nature Watchers team) located on the Desertas Islands Nature Reserve, found a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta), trapped in a coil of cables at sea.
The presiding judge of the Madeira District, Paulo Barreto, confirmed today that a request for habeas corpus from a Madeiran woman forced to go into quarantine at the Vila Galé hotel in Santa Cruz, has been filed.
A couple of days ago, 363 bottles of 'Rum 970 Reserva 6 Anos' were removed from the bottom of the sea from Marina of Quinta do Lorde, Caniçal, where it had lain for fourteen months.
The firefighting helicopter arrived this morning at the port of Caniçal, 15 days before the start of the Operational Programme for Combating Forest Fires (POCIF).