{"id":44012,"date":"2021-11-11T06:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=44012"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T09:10:33","slug":"401000-vaccinations-now-administered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/401000-vaccinations-now-administered\/","title":{"rendered":"401,000 vaccinations now administered","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Madeira moves towards 85% 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\/09\/vaccination-centre-360x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42824 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/09\/vaccination-centre-360x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42824\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccination-centre-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccination-centre-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccination-centre-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccination-centre.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Regional Health Department, up to the 7th of November, 401,068 vaccinations against COVID-19 had been administered in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, since the 31st of December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the total number of vaccines administered in the archipelago, 209,186 correspond to the administration of the first dose, 206,448 complete vaccination doses and 11,067 booster\/additional doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coverage rate of the resident population over 50 years old is 98%, and among residents aged between 12 and 17 years the coverage rate is above 79%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also a homogeneous distribution of the vaccinated population by municipalities, with more than 83% of complete vaccination, with the exception of the municipalities of C\u00e2mara de Lobos and Santa Cruz, both with 79%.<\/p>\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\/11\/image-41-296x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44019 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/11\/image-41-296x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44019\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-41-296x360.png 296w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-41.png 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Blog 16 September<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 85% target has been there from the government for some time &#8211; just two days after the blog post opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10000-more-to-reach-85\/\">JM led with the headline that Regional health authorities need to convince around 10,000 <\/a>people to reach the target of 85% of the population of Madeira with complete vaccination. Obviously the data has been manipulated along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the provisional data collected, on the 7th of November, through the national platform for registration and management of vaccines, 83% of the resident population has already completed vaccination and 85% have started vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">85% vaccination rate &#8220;achievable &#8220;next week&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/11\/madeira-university-portugal-joana-64eff9e511d7eb613f3681e4f8247f27-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44013 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/11\/madeira-university-portugal-joana-64eff9e511d7eb613f3681e4f8247f27-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44013\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/madeira-university-portugal-joana-64eff9e511d7eb613f3681e4f8247f27-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/madeira-university-portugal-joana-64eff9e511d7eb613f3681e4f8247f27-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/madeira-university-portugal-joana-64eff9e511d7eb613f3681e4f8247f27.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the epidemiological situation in the Region, Regional President <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> revealed yesterday that among those infected 29 are users of Nursing Homes, 41 in Schools, 8 in the Social Care Sector and 6 linked to the Health services. In a separate announcement yesterday it was revealed that two first-year students at the University of Madeira had also tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to focus now on the number of inpatients\u201d which \u201cfortunately are low\u201d, he considered, referring to the nine inpatients (until yesterday) and among these, only two people have associated pathologies and are in intensive care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About the outbreak at the old-folks home at Lar de Gaula, he reinforced that \u201cas people were already vaccinated, its effects are much milder and some of them are even asymptomatic and this demonstrates once again that it is essential for people to be vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, he assured that the \u201cmassive testing in all schools\u201d is underway and is already warning that \u201csome of the events we are going to have at Christmas will force people to take many precautions\u201d, otherwise there will be a regression in the control of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationwide, Portugal has performed better than Madeira and reached 86% vaccination coverage, with 87% having started their jabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-16-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\/11\/43-cases-and-one-more-death\/\">earlier&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/covid-19-upward-trend-continues-slowly\/\">post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-13-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Travel latest: requirements for entering and leaving Madeira<\/strong>: is kept up-to-date on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/travel-latest-entering-and-leaving-madeira\/\">previous post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madeira moves towards 85% target According to the Regional Health Department, up to the 7th of November, 401,068 vaccinations against COVID-19 had been administered in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, since the 31st of December 2020. Of the total number of vaccines administered in the archipelago, 209,186 correspond to the administration of the first dose, 206,448 complete vaccination doses and 11,067 booster\/additional doses. The coverage rate of the resident population over 50 years old is 98%, and among residents aged between 12 and 17 years the coverage rate is above 79%. There is also a homogeneous distribution of the vaccinated population by municipalities, with more than 83% of complete vaccination, with the exception of the municipalities of C\u00e2mara de Lobos and Santa Cruz, both with 79%. The 85% target has been there from the government for some time &#8211; just two days after the blog post opposite JM led with the headline that Regional health authorities need to convince around 10,000 people to reach the target of 85% of the population of Madeira with complete vaccination. Obviously the data has been manipulated along the way. According to the provisional data collected, on the 7th of November, through the national platform for registration and management of vaccines, 83% of the resident population has already completed vaccination and 85% have started vaccination. 85% vaccination rate &#8220;achievable &#8220;next week&#8221; Regarding the epidemiological situation in the Region, Regional President Miguel Albuquerque revealed yesterday that among those infected 29 are users of Nursing Homes, 41 in Schools, 8 in the Social Care Sector and 6 linked to the Health services. In a separate announcement yesterday it was revealed that two first-year students at the University of Madeira had also tested positive. \u201cWe have to focus now on the number of inpatients\u201d which \u201cfortunately are low\u201d, he considered, referring to the nine inpatients (until yesterday) and among these, only two people have associated pathologies and are in intensive care. About the outbreak at the old-folks home at Lar de Gaula, he reinforced that \u201cas people were already vaccinated, its effects are much milder and some of them are even asymptomatic and this demonstrates once again that it is essential for people to be vaccinated\u201d. Moreover, he assured that the \u201cmassive testing in all schools\u201d is underway and is already warning that \u201csome of the events we are going to have at Christmas will force people to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"401,000 vaccinations now administered\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/401000-vaccinations-now-administered\/#more-44012\" aria-label=\"Read more about 401,000 vaccinations now administered\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":43122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/44012","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=44012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}