Azores Situation Report Saturday 3rd July 2021
From our Colleague in the Azores
Agua de Pau, Lagoa.
The regional secretary for Health and Sports announced, this Thursday, that given the worsening of the pandemic situation that has been verified in recent days in the village of Água de Pau, a mass testing of this community will take place.
The testing will take place on the 5th, 6th and 7th of July, between 15:30 and 19:30, at the João Bosco Mota Amaral Community Centre (Rua da Ribeira s/n), with 2500 people over 6 years of age being expected to be tested. To ensure this operation is a success, there will be around 35 professionals.
Residents inoculated only with the 1st dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 should take the screening test, while residents with the complete vaccine schedule (1st and 2nd doses) do not need to do the screening test.
To ensure an organised movement of the population to the “harvest center” the population should follow the following planning:
Day 5 Monday
Rua da Trindade, Rua do Mercado, Travessa da Carreira, Rua da Ribeira, Largo do Santiago, Travessa do Santiago, Moinho da Vila path, Rua do Cura, Beco do Saco, Rua do Boqueirão, Barreirinhos, Rua Nova, Rua da Natividade , Rua do Outeiro, Rua dos Coelhos, Rua da Arrochela, Trave da Arrochela, Trave da Natividade, Rua Padre João Botelho Mota, Rua de S. Pedro, Alley do Rosário, Rua Maria dos Anjos Amaral and Rua do Emigrante;
Day 6 Tuesday
Rua Prof. João Ferreira da Silva, Rua Padre. Mestre João José d’Amaral, Valverde de Baixo street, Mato e Casinhas street, Valverde de Cima street, Valverde de Cima street, Valverde de Baixo street, Canadinha street, Igreja street, Paul street, Paul street Paul, Paul, Rua do Passal, Grota dos Dogs, Rua Padre João Moniz de Melo, Rua Manuel Egídio Medeiros, Rua da Vila Nova, Rua do Ginjal, Rua do Caminho Velho, Rua da Portela, Beco da Igreja and Caloura (including Rua do Jubileu, Rua do Cerco, Canada da Galera, Canada do Castelo, Caminho do Porto, Cinzeiro and Baixa d’Areia);
day 7 wednesday
Regional Road nº 1 – 1st (between Term and Rua de S. Pedro), Caminho das Caninas, Rua do Foral Novo, Rua do Foral Novo, Rua dos Moinhos, Rua dos Barrancos, Rua da Ribeira Seca, Rua Manuel Augusto Amaral, Praça da República, Rua dos Ferreiros, Rua do Pico de Baixo and Rua do Pico de Cima.
The health authority requests that everyone who should be tested, is tested.
30th June 2021
30 new positive cases of covid-19 were diagnosed in the Azores, one on the island of Terceira and 29 on the island of São Miguel, following 1,506 tests carried out in the reference laboratories of the Region and one in a private laboratory.
On the island of Terceira, the positive case diagnosed concerned a traveller, residing in the parish of Santa Cruz, the municipality of Praia da Vitoria, who tested positive on the 6th day.
On the island of São Miguel, three of the 29 cases diagnosed concern travellers who tested positive upon arrival, one non-resident and two residents. The rest are related to community transmission. In terms of municipalities, Ribeira Grande registered seven new cases (two in Matriz, two in Ribeirinha, one in Pico da Pedra, one in Rabo de Peixe and one in Ribeira Seca). Vila Franca do Campo registered four new cases, all in the parish of Ponta Garça, and in the municipality of Nordeste there is a new case in the Vila de Nordeste. In the municipality of Ponta Delgada, there are eight new cases (two in Fajã de Baixo, two in São Pedro, two in São Sebastião, one in Feteiras and one in Pilar da Bretanha). There are nine new cases in the municipality of Lagoa (seven in Água de Pau, one in Cabouco and one in Santa Cruz).
26 recoveries were registered.
1st July 2021
24 new positive cases of covid-19 were diagnosed in the Azores, all on the island of São Miguel, in the context of community transmission, following 1,586 tests carried out in the reference laboratories of the Region.
There were nine new cases in the municipality of Ribeira Grande (four in Matriz, two in Ribeirinha, one in Maia, one in Lomba da Maia and one in Rabo de Peixe). There were seven new cases in the municipality of Ponta Delgada (two in Arrifes, two in Fajã de Baixo, one in Covoada, one in São José and one in São Pedro). There were eight new cases in the municipality of Lagoa (five in Água de Pau, two in Rosário and one in Santa Cruz).
30 recoveries have been registered.
2nd July 2021
15 new positive cases of covid-19 were diagnosed in the Azores, one on the island of Pico, one on the island of Faial and 13 on the island of São Miguel, following 1,547 tests carried out in the reference laboratories of the Region.
On the island of Pico, the positive case diagnosed concerned a traveller, non-resident, registered in Madalena, who tested positive on the 6th day. On the island of Faial, there is a new case in Castelo Branco, which is part of one of the active transmission chains on the island.
On the island of São Miguel, all new cases registered were in the context of community transmission. There were six new cases in the municipality of Ribeira Grande (three in Matriz, one in Lomba da Maia, one in the Conceição and one in Rabo de Peixe). There were four new cases in the municipality of Ponta Delgada (two in Covoada, one in São José and one in Relva). There were three new cases in the municipality of Lagoa, all in Água de Pau.
Also in the last 24 hours, 42 recoveries have been registered (see table at the end) and four patients are hospitalized, at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, one of them in intensive care unit.
The archipelago currently has 256 active positive cases: 245 on the island of São Miguel, five on the island of Faial, two in on the island of Graciosa, one on the island of Pico, one on the island of Terceira, one on the island of São Jorge and one on the island of Santa Maria. Two primary local transmission chains are active in Faial, one in the parish of Praia do Norte and the other in Castelo Branco, municipality of Horta. To date, 203 have been extinguished on all islands. There are 772 people under active surveillance today.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,379 positive cases of covid-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores and 5,951 people recovered from the disease. There were 33 deaths, 83 people who left the archipelago and 56 cases with history of previous cure. To date, 575,963 tests have been carried out for SARS-CoV-2, which causes covid-19 disease.
Since last December 31st, 2020 till June 30th, 224,012 doses of covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the Azores, with 124,738 people who received the first dose (51.4 % of the population) and 99,274 people with complete vaccination (40.9 %), under the Regional Vaccination Plan.