Azores Situation Report Wednesday 27th October 2021
From our colleague in the Azores
Covid -19
Since the last Situation Report a week ago on the 20th September there have been 107 new cases of Covid-19 registered, 10 fewer than last week, and 93 recoveries, 1 less than last week.
Current situation:
The archipelago currently registers 185 positive active cases: 167 on the island of São Miguel, 13 on the island of Faial, four on the island of Terceira and one on the island of Pico.
An 87-year-old woman died last Sunday, with covid-19, at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, in Ponta Delgada.
She had been hospitalized since the 19th of this month, was from Lar Luís Soares de Sousa, in Ponta Delgada, she had several comorbidities.
Hospitalisations:
As of today, there are five patients hospitalised, all at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, none in intensive care unit.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 9,394 positive cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores, of which 8,980 recovered from the disease, 45 people died, 95 people left the archipelago and 89 showed proof of cure of previous infection.
From December 31st, 2020 to October 25th, 174,268 people in the Azores have been vaccinated with the first dose (73.6 per cent) and 194,605 with complete vaccination (82,2 per cent), under the Regional Vaccination Plan.
Missing Fisherman
A 66-year-old fisherman who had been missing since Saturday night on the island of Pico, was found dead on Monday, the National Maritime Authority said.
The man’s body was located and “taken out of the water” this afternoon “by divers and transported by vessel from the Maritime Police Post of São Roque do Pico to the port of São Roque do Pico, where he was identified”.
The fisherman had disappeared on Saturday night, when he allegedly travelled to practice fishing in the area around São Miguel Arcanjo, on the island of Pico, not having returned home.
Following the operations to search for him, a shirt was found in the morning, which was confirmed to belong to the victim, and the body was located later in the afternoon, in the water, by the Navy and Madalena Fire Brigade teams of divers.
The search operations, coordinated by the Captain of Porto and the Local Commander of the Maritime Police of Horta, involved elements of the Maritime Police Post of São Roque do Pico, the NRP Viana do Castelo and the NRP António Enes, of the Portuguese Navy and a Portuguese Navy divers’ team.
Also involved in the searches were an Air Force aircraft, the São Roque do Pico Volunteer Firefighters and the Madalena Volunteer Firefighters, with teams of divers, as well as a ‘drones’ operation team from the Operational Command of Madeira.
According to a statement from the National Maritime Authority, the alert was given around 06:30 on Sunday, by a family member who said that the man left home to fish, at 20:00 on Saturday, and did not return.
Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale was recorded Sunday on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, the Azores Seismovolcanic Surveillance and Information Centre (CIVISA) reported today.
According to CIVISA, the event took place at 12:26 local (13:26 in Lisbon) and had magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale and epicentre at about 38 kilometres to WNW” (West-northwest) “of Mosteiros, in the island of São Miguel.