{"id":41659,"date":"2021-06-26T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=41659"},"modified":"2021-06-27T19:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:59:01","slug":"german-red-list-includes-madeira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/german-red-list-includes-madeira\/","title":{"rendered":"German &#8220;red list&#8221; includes Madeira","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Decision not understood&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/06\/eduardo-jesus-360x189.png\" alt=\"Eduardo Jesus talking about Germany&#039;s decision\" class=\"wp-image-41660 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/06\/eduardo-jesus-360x189.png\" alt=\"Eduardo Jesus talking about Germany&#039;s decision\" class=\"wp-image-41660\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eduardo-jesus-360x189.png 360w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eduardo-jesus-500x263.png 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eduardo-jesus.png 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Diario reports that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeira.gov.pt\/srtc\/GovernoRegional\/OGoverno\/Secretarias\/Structure\/Equipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Secretary for Tourism, Eduardo Jesus<\/a>, does not understand why Germany did not discriminate positively in favour of Madeira vis-\u00e0-vis the whole of Portugal in terms of new limitations imposed on travellers. Yesterday Germany announced that with effect from next Tuesday (June 29) both Portugal and Russia will be classified as &#8220;virus variant areas&#8221; and apply strict rules to returning travellers, including a negative PCR test and a strict 14-day quarantine (this period cannot be shortened regardless of the number of tests taken).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government official reacted in this way to the recent inclusion of Portugal in the German &#8216;red list&#8217;, effectively making Madeira suffer from the decision imposed on the whole country. The decision, it is understood, will not be reconsidered by the German authorities for two weeks, although different reports are giving different details in this respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Germany&#8217;s decision is naturally not understood by us as reasonable, since there was again the temptation to consider Madeira in the whole of Portugal as a country, without having the notion that the Autonomous Region Madeira is not only physically distant, it has a pandemic reality different from that which is national\u201d.<\/p><p>We believe that since Chancellor Angela Merkel last week openly criticised the Portuguese understanding of pandemic control, referring directly to the Prime Minister of Portugal, we realized that there was a threat here and we immediately approached the German ambassador in Portugal, and also by sensitizing the large operators within the German market here in Madeira, in order to reach them with what was the pure and harsh reality of the Region, and seeking to have a separate understanding of such positive discrimination that I have been referring to in relation to Madeira.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeira.gov.pt\/srtc\/GovernoRegional\/OGoverno\/Secretarias\/Structure\/Equipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Secretary for Tourism, Eduardo Jesus<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">6,200 airplane seats at risk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Given this situation, the regional secretary fears that 6,200 seats on the planes that were planned for the next 14 days are at risk.&nbsp;&#8220;We have, at this moment, available for these same 14 days, 6,200 seats on planes connecting Germany to Madeira on direct flights. &#8220;These arrivals will be harmed&#8221;, predicts the official, although he does not know, for now, &#8220;to what extent&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>At this moment, the Region has already started &#8220;to sensitize the entities again in the sense of considering Madeira as an Autonomous Region and not with the numbers integrated in the national numbers&#8221;, work that will continue to be done in the coming days, &#8220;so that the next review that takes place after 14 days can take into account that same concern on our part&#8221;, points out Jesus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Friday, Germany placed Portugal on the &#8216;red list&#8217; with the origin of the decision being the significant increase in the incidence rate in Portugal, which registers 137.5 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. The number of currently infected exceeds 30,000. More than a thousand cases were reported in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo in 24 hours.<br \/><br \/>Portugal and Russia were placed on the list of countries that Germany considers areas at particularly high risk due to the &#8216;classification&#8217; decided out by&nbsp;Robert Koch&nbsp;Institut, the federal government institution responsible for monitoring and preventing diseases, and is valid for two weeks, warning that limitations to circulation may be prolonged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A new tab has been added to the top of each page with a link to resources dealing with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19 in Madeira<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 this covers the latest government regulations on travel to the island, how to get a PCR test, and many other links that will be useful to people wanting to travel to and from Madeira<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID-19 in Madeira:&nbsp;<\/strong>daily updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/covid-19-madeira-averaging-just-5-cases-day\/\">earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vaccinations in Madeira:&nbsp;<\/strong>updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/vaccinations-for-over-20s-from-august\/\">&nbsp;earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Decision not understood&#8221; The Diario reports that the Regional Secretary for Tourism, Eduardo Jesus, does not understand why Germany did not discriminate positively in favour of Madeira vis-\u00e0-vis the whole of Portugal in terms of new limitations imposed on travellers. Yesterday Germany announced that with effect from next Tuesday (June 29) both Portugal and Russia will be classified as &#8220;virus variant areas&#8221; and apply strict rules to returning travellers, including a negative PCR test and a strict 14-day quarantine (this period cannot be shortened regardless of the number of tests taken). The government official reacted in this way to the recent inclusion of Portugal in the German &#8216;red list&#8217;, effectively making Madeira suffer from the decision imposed on the whole country. The decision, it is understood, will not be reconsidered by the German authorities for two weeks, although different reports are giving different details in this respect. &#8220;Germany&#8217;s decision is naturally not understood by us as reasonable, since there was again the temptation to consider Madeira in the whole of Portugal as a country, without having the notion that the Autonomous Region Madeira is not only physically distant, it has a pandemic reality different from that which is national\u201d. We believe that since Chancellor Angela Merkel last week openly criticised the Portuguese understanding of pandemic control, referring directly to the Prime Minister of Portugal, we realized that there was a threat here and we immediately approached the German ambassador in Portugal, and also by sensitizing the large operators within the German market here in Madeira, in order to reach them with what was the pure and harsh reality of the Region, and seeking to have a separate understanding of such positive discrimination that I have been referring to in relation to Madeira. Regional Secretary for Tourism, Eduardo Jesus 6,200 airplane seats at risk Given this situation, the regional secretary fears that 6,200 seats on the planes that were planned for the next 14 days are at risk.&nbsp;&#8220;We have, at this moment, available for these same 14 days, 6,200 seats on planes connecting Germany to Madeira on direct flights. &#8220;These arrivals will be harmed&#8221;, predicts the official, although he does not know, for now, &#8220;to what extent&#8221;. At this moment, the Region has already started &#8220;to sensitize the entities again in the sense of considering Madeira as an Autonomous Region and not with the numbers integrated in the national numbers&#8221;, work &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"German &#8220;red list&#8221; includes Madeira\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/german-red-list-includes-madeira\/#more-41659\" aria-label=\"Read more about German &#8220;red list&#8221; includes Madeira\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-regional-people-headlines","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}