{"id":42099,"date":"2021-07-22T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=42099"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:27:18","slug":"president-satisfied-with-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/president-satisfied-with-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"President satisfied with progress","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">70% vaccination rate on target<\/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\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-360x203.jpg\" alt=\"President is more than happy with the person in charge of the &#039;task force&#039;, Gouveia e Melo.\" class=\"wp-image-42100 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-360x203.jpg\" alt=\"President is more than happy with the person in charge of the &#039;task force&#039;, Gouveia e Melo.\" class=\"wp-image-42100\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gouveia-e-Melo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JM reports that according to the president of the Regional Government, the national vaccination &#8216;task force&#8217; &#8220;has met scrupulously&#8221; its obligations in sending vaccines to Madeira, so the region maintains the goal of 70% of the population inoculated in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe person in charge of the &#8216;task force&#8217;, Gouveia e Melo (pictured), has scrupulously complied with the doses destined for Madeira,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_Albuquerque#:~:text=Miguel%20Filipe%20Machado%20de%20Albuquerque%20(born%204%20May%201961)%20is,Madeira%20on%2010%20January%202015.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miguel Albuquerque<\/a> said. he added that the Region \u201cdoes not ask for more or less than the others\u201d, stressing that \u201cthe distribution of vaccines has been done in terms of proportion of the population\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vice admiral is a serious person and, fortunately for the country, he took this role [responsible for the &#8216;task force&#8217; of vaccination] seriously,\u201d added the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Miguel Albuquerque, \u201cuntil now\u201d the vaccines \u201chave always been coming from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson\u201d, which \u201cwill allow us to reach September with a considerable number of vaccinated residents and more than 70% of the population vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President highlighted the \u201cgood adherence verified on Tuesday at the &#8216;open day&#8217; of the Funchal Vaccination Centre, in which around 1,000 people were vaccinated without an appointment\u201d, with the health authorities planning to repeat the action on 27 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president also mentioned that the vaccination process for students is underway, with the Regional Government&#8217;s objective that those who attend educational establishments outside Madeira are inoculated with the second dose when they return to the region. Miguel Albuquerque pointed out that the goal is to have, \u201cwhen school resumes, all or almost the entire young population vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Calamity&#8221; measures maintained<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Council of the Regional Government of Madeira met yesterday and decided to maintain the sanitary control measures, under the calamity situation, due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among these, the mandatory presentation of a negative PCR test when entering Madeira and the mandatory curfew between 01:00 and 05:00, including on weekends. Bars and restaurants have extended opening hours until 00:00, and are allowed to accommodate up to two-thirds of their capacity and to operate with six people at the same table indoors and 10 outdoors.\u00a0\u201cDrinking over the counter or standing up\u201d is still not allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since June 21, only a rapid negative antigen test is required for travel between the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo, carried out up to 48 hours before the trip.<\/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:\u00a0<\/strong>daily updates can be found\u00a0in\u00a0an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/covid-19-madeira-passes-10000-cases\/\">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\/07\/vaccination-update\/\">&nbsp;earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70% vaccination rate on target JM reports that according to the president of the Regional Government, the national vaccination &#8216;task force&#8217; &#8220;has met scrupulously&#8221; its obligations in sending vaccines to Madeira, so the region maintains the goal of 70% of the population inoculated in September. \u201cThe person in charge of the &#8216;task force&#8217;, Gouveia e Melo (pictured), has scrupulously complied with the doses destined for Madeira,\u201d Miguel Albuquerque said. he added that the Region \u201cdoes not ask for more or less than the others\u201d, stressing that \u201cthe distribution of vaccines has been done in terms of proportion of the population\u201d. \u201cThe vice admiral is a serious person and, fortunately for the country, he took this role [responsible for the &#8216;task force&#8217; of vaccination] seriously,\u201d added the President. According to Miguel Albuquerque, \u201cuntil now\u201d the vaccines \u201chave always been coming from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson\u201d, which \u201cwill allow us to reach September with a considerable number of vaccinated residents and more than 70% of the population vaccinated\u201d. The President highlighted the \u201cgood adherence verified on Tuesday at the &#8216;open day&#8217; of the Funchal Vaccination Centre, in which around 1,000 people were vaccinated without an appointment\u201d, with the health authorities planning to repeat the action on 27 July. The president also mentioned that the vaccination process for students is underway, with the Regional Government&#8217;s objective that those who attend educational establishments outside Madeira are inoculated with the second dose when they return to the region. Miguel Albuquerque pointed out that the goal is to have, \u201cwhen school resumes, all or almost the entire young population vaccinated\u201d. &#8220;Calamity&#8221; measures maintained The Council of the Regional Government of Madeira met yesterday and decided to maintain the sanitary control measures, under the calamity situation, due to COVID-19. Among these, the mandatory presentation of a negative PCR test when entering Madeira and the mandatory curfew between 01:00 and 05:00, including on weekends. Bars and restaurants have extended opening hours until 00:00, and are allowed to accommodate up to two-thirds of their capacity and to operate with six people at the same table indoors and 10 outdoors.\u00a0\u201cDrinking over the counter or standing up\u201d is still not allowed. Since June 21, only a rapid negative antigen test is required for travel between the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo, carried out up to 48 hours before the trip. A new tab has been added to the top of &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"President satisfied with progress\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/president-satisfied-with-progress\/#more-42099\" aria-label=\"Read more about President satisfied with progress\">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-42099","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\/42099","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=42099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}