The Director-General of Health (DGS) defended today that people can meet up, but in a different way from the past, because everyone will have to comply with the new social distancing rules introduced to minimise the spread of Covid-19.
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The Support Programme for the Adaptation of the Activity of SMEs (Small, Micro and Medium Sized Businesses) in the Autonomous Region of Madeira in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, was presented by the Regional Secretary for Economy, Rui Barreto this week.
Mário de Sousa, the 62-year-old man who was last seen last Saturday walking down the street next to the Monte Health Centre is still missing.
The President of the Regional Government said today that the PCR tests will cost Madeira in the region of 500 and 600 thousand euros per month. Miguel Albuquerque further stated that everything is planned so that if someone tests positive, they will be relocated to one of the islands isolation hotels. Samantha…
There have been Criminal Criminal Investigation requests submitted so far to the Criminal Criminal Investigation Court of Funchal against mandatory confinement.
The mandatory quarantine for passengers arriving in the Region has been reduced to one week, and hotel tests began today, stated the Regional Secretary for Health, Pedro Ramos.
With a world in turmoil and an increase in global poverty especially among the most vulnerable sections of the community, the EAPN - Portugal/European Anti Poverty Network, has proposed that governments and social entities start thinking about the challenges ahead and how to tackle what is increasingly becoming a widespread and complex problem.
Today, senior World Health Organisation (WHO) officials refused to answer any direct questions about China's delay in sharing the genetic map of the new coronavirus with them.
The Funchal City Council's Department of Economy and Culture, in conjunction with the Municipal Civil Protection Service, has launched a guide on 'good health practices' for trade and services.
An employee of a well-known restaurant located the Old Town of Funchal barricaded himself inside today as a result of his employers’s continuous failure to pay him. A situation that has been ongoing since March this year.
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 firefighting helicopter arrived this morning at the port of Caniçal, 15 days before the start of the Operational Programme for Combating Forest Fires (POCIF).