COVID-19 patients brought to Madeira
JM’s front page predictably leads with the arrival of the three COVID-19 cases brought to Madeira from Lisbon last night. The three are now in the Intensive Care Unit of the area dedicated to COVID-19, at the main Dr Nélio Mendonça hospital in Funchal (video below of the patients being transferred). Portuguese prime minister António Costa informed Miguel Albuquerque how much he and the Republic appreciated the solidarity of the Region.
In the same edition, precisely, the President of the Regional Government sends a message of optimism when saying that he believes Madeira will see a reduction of new cases of the disease starting next week. Yesterday, only two municipalities did not register new cases of COVID-19 in Madeira – Porto Moniz and Ponta do Sol, but it was also under control in Porto Santo, Santana and São Vicente, with only one case counted in each.
The newspaper also headlines that there are already 274 people immune to COVID-19 in the Region, those who have completed the vaccination process by taking two doses of the vaccine.
COVID-19 in Madeira: daily updates can be found on an earlier post.
Let’s hope the upheaval of the move doesn’t cause a degrading of their condition.
This operation can’t have been cheap?
Military flight do the Portuguese government picks up the tab but what price lives? A difficult balance.