7th death from covid-19 but still without community transmission – DNOTICIAS.PT



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Madeira today registered the seventh fatality of covid-19, an 87-year-old woman who was hospitalized in the unit dedicated to the new coronavirus and had several associated comorbidities.

The Regional Ministry of Health has just announced that a patient, 87 years old, with covid-19 died this Wednesday, at the Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital.

In the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, the regional secretary of Health and Civil Protection, Pedro Ramos, guaranteed that there is no community transmission of the disease in the Region and that there are “just over 30 transmission chains”, all identified.

Miguel IGLESIAS again asked Pedro Ramos if there is active community transmission of COVID-19 in the Region, since the regional secretary had not given a direct answer.

Already the former clinical director of SESARAM, Mário Pereira, expressed this afternoon, through the social network Facebook, his “concern” and that of “other medical colleagues from various specialties”, that Madeira is living “most likely the beginning”. a situation of community transmission “.

The former clinical director of SESARAM made an appeal to the Madeira population through a post on Facebook

In the Regional Parliament, the regional secretary of Tourism and Culture, Eduardo Jesús, said that the hotel occupancy perspective for Christmas is 40% and, for the New Year, 50%.

The prospects and hotel occupancy for Christmas, on December 4, was 26%, but today, Eduardo Jesús reports, it is 40% and, for the New Year, 50%.

On the same day, the Governing Council, meeting in plenary session, authorized the signing of two cooperation agreements between the Madeira Social Security Institute and two Private Social Solidarity Institutions (IPSS), the Mário Miguel Foundation and the Paralysis Association. Cerebral da Madeira, allocating for this purpose a single financial contribution of 254 thousand euros and 268 thousand euros, respectively.

The Mário Miguel Foundation receives 254 thousand euros and the Cerebral Palsy Association of Madeira pays 268 thousand euros



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