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Madeira registered 26 new positive cases of covid-19 today, December 21, so RAM begins to count 1,247 confirmed cases in the regional territory, according to the IASAÚDE situation report.
These are 9 imported cases (7 from the United Kingdom and 2 from the Central Region of Portugal) and 17 cases of local transmission, mostly associated with contacts or contexts of previously identified positive cases.
As for the cases confirmed today, there is a positive case in the health area, in the case of 1 health professional from SESARAM, identified by EPERAM in the field of in-hospital screening.
Two cases also stand out in the social area, namely, two residents in a residential structure for the elderly, from the private sector, where positive cases had already been identified. “The epidemiological investigation is still ongoing,” IASAÚDE guarantees.
Today there are 23 more recovered cases to report, so the region now has 903 recovered cases of covid-19.
With one more death confirmed today, RAM counts, to date, a total of 10 deaths associated with the new coronavirus.
The health authorities assure that it was an 80-year-old patient who “was admitted to the Unit dedicated to covid-19 since December 11 and had multiple associated comorbidities.”
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