Azores Situation Report Wednesday 12th October 2022
From our colleague in the Azores
Covid-19
In the seven days from Friday 30th of September until Thursday 6th of October there were 165 new positive cases of Covid-19 registered in the Azores, and a total of 1,744 tests performed. 245 people have recovered, and no new deaths have been recorded with the total still at 117 There are 167 active cases, 80 fewer than the previous week.
There are 2 patients in the region’s hospitals as of 7th of October with Covid, only one of which is in hospital because of Covid. There are no patients in the ICU.
120902 people in the region have had Covid, that’s over 50% of the population.
As from Monday the 10th of October it is no longer necessary to self-isolate because of Covid-19 in the Azores Region.
Here is the notice issued by the health authority: –
A circular issued by the Regional Health Directorate extinguishes in the archipelago, as of today, the prophylactic isolation by covid-19.
The circular explains that “regarding the repeal of measures for the prophylactic isolation of positive cases by SARS-COV-2, following the publication of Decree-Law No. validity of published decree-laws, within the scope of the covid-19 disease pandemic, the Regional Health Directorate comes to clarify that, in the Autonomous Region of the Azores, despite the validity of the Government Council Resolution No. On September 1, the prophylactic isolation measures of positive covid-19 cases are considered to apply in the region, as well as in the mainland, so that, as of the present date, there will no longer be prophylactic isolation of cases. positive for SARS-COV-2”.
Covid-19 | People aged 60 and over eligible for seasonal vaccination in the Azores
People aged 60 years and over, professionals and residents of nursing homes, health professionals and adults with pathologies are part of the eligible group for vaccination against covid-19 in the Azores, it was revealed.
In a circular published today by the Regional Government, it is read that people who are part of the eligible groups of the vaccination campaign against covid-19 autumn/winter 2022/23 “must be vaccinated as long as they have completed the primary vaccination schedule” with any one of them. of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Those people will be able to be vaccinated “regardless of the number of boosters performed previously” or whether they have already had covid-19.
The group eligible for seasonal vaccination includes people aged 60 years or over or citizens between the ages of 18 and 59 with “risk pathologies”, such as immunosuppression, diabetes, obesity, mental, cardiovascular, neurological, liver or kidney diseases.
“Professionals and residents in Residential Structures for Elderly People”, in health homes, in the “Regional Network of Integrated Continuing Care (RRCCI)”, in prisons, residential homes or occupational activity centres, are also eligible for seasonal vaccination.
Also, part of that group are health service professionals, students in “clinical internship” and “firefighters involved in transporting patients”.
The Regional Health Directorate says that the “recommended interval between the seasonal booster dose and the most recent event” (infection with covid-19 or the last dose of vaccine) is four to six months, being the “minimum interval” three months.
People who are part of the eligible group but who have an “incomplete primary vaccination schedule” must “take a booster dose”.
Those eligible who do not have the “recommended boosters” against covid-19, “only perform a booster dose” of the coronavirus vaccine.
Also today, an ordinance came into force that extends until December 31st the “validity of medical prescriptions in which flu vaccines are exclusively prescribed, for the 2022/2023 flu season, issued from July 1st, 2022”.