Azores Situation Report Wednesday 11th May 2021

 

By our correspondent in the Azores

Covid-19 

The Regional Health Authority has said that in the last four days the number of new positive cases of Covid-19 resulting from 5,623 tests is 86.  These tests were carried out in reference laboratories in the Region, in private laboratories with conventions, in the Regional Health Service, through rapid tests (mass screening), in the laboratory of Terceira University and by means of tests carried out in the scope of occupational medicine.

São Miguel registered most of the cases with 81. Flores had 2 and Terceira 3.

There have been some recoveries, 57 in total.  All of them on the island of São Miguel.

12 patients are hospitalized, all at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, in São Miguel, with one in intensive care. There are currently 774 people under active surveillance.

As of today, the Region has 214 active positive cases, 199 in São Miguel, 9 in Flores, 4 in Terceira and 2 in Santa Maria.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,085 positive cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores, and 4,720 people have recovered from the disease. 31 died, 79 left the archipelago and 43 presented proof of previous healing. There is an active chain, in Flores, and 201 chains have already been extinguished.

Between December 31st, 2020 and May 6th, 87,077 doses of vaccine against Covid-19 have been administered in the Azores, corresponding to 59,347 people aged 15 years and over, with the first dose and 27,730 people with both doses, within the scope of the Regional Vaccination Plan.