A testing oversight allowed a male Covid sufferer to go undetected for two days, and it was only after he asked for help as a non-Covid patient that the original communication failure was detected.
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The Project to Enhance the Region of Cabo Girão (GIRO), promoted by the Insular Association of Geography (AIG), today launched the Digital Catalogue of Cabo Girão Protected Area Species.
Today, the 19th of January, one hundred firefighters from different municipal fire departments and members of the Portuguese Red Cross (CVP), who are responsible for transporting either positive or suspected Covid cases were called forward to receive their first Pfizer vaccination.
According to the 4th of January's Resolution nº 1/2021, all passengers who disembark at Porto Santo airport must present a negative PCR test, which has been carried out within the last 72 hours to the airport authorities.
So with numbers of Covid cases increasing daily, mostly due to the Christmas and New Year rule relaxations, it is now thought that the most optimistic deadline for when Madeira's population will be vaccinated against the virus is the end of 2022. But this could be very optimistic, as the second vaccine package will only arrive in February.
At 8:22 pm on Saturday the 9th of January, a 3.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded at a depth of 24 km off the northeast coast of Porto Santo.
Due to the increasing number of deaths and positive covid-19 cases, the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque has introduced a new set of restrictions. These will remain in place until the 31st of January. The new restrictions are:-
This afternoon the Regional Government (RG) decided to close all the schools in the municipality of Santa Cruz.
The Regional Secretary for Education (SRE) released this afternoon the covid-19 test schedule for teachers and non-teachers.
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.
The first five people to be vaccinated were Adérito Delgado (ambulance crew), Ana Patricia da Silva, (operational assistant) João Caires (nurse), Pedro Balza (doctor) and Ludovina Teixeira (technician).
At midday, tomorrow the 31st of December, the President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, will oversee the administration of the first Covid-19 vaccinations at the Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital.
The lottery to decide who will be the first to be vaccinated against Covid has been won by........ 'It's a surprise!' So says Pedro Ramos, the Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection.
On the 26th of December a new Portuguese vaccine portal was launched which aims to provide the population with “all the details” concerning the new vaccine campaign which started on the mainland on Sunday, the 27th of December.
Pedro Ramos, the Regional Secretary for Health, has confirmed that Portugal will receive a total of 22 million doses, 400,000 of which, will be delivered in stages to the Autonomous Region of Madeira.