Azores Situation Report – 13th October 2021 – From our colleague in the Azores
Covid -19
Since the last Situation Report a week ago on the 6th September there have been 92 new cases of Covid-19 registered, less than last week, and 84 recoveries.
Hospitalizations
As of today, there are nine patients hospitalized, six at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, two at the Santo Espírito Hospital of Terceira Island, and one at the Horta Hospital, in intensive care unit.
Current situation:
The archipelago currently registers 152 positive active cases: 140 on the island of São Miguel, six on the island of Terceira, three on the island of Faial and three on the island of Pico.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 9,168 positive cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores, of which 8,790 recovered from the disease. There were 43 deaths, 95 people who left the archipelago and 88 cases with history of previous cure.
From December 31st, 2020 to October 11th, 173,743 people in the Azores have been vaccinated with the first dose (73,4 per cent) and 192,750 with complete vaccination (81,4 per cent), under the Regional Vaccination Plan.
House Collapse
An “old house” was last night “totally destroyed” in the city of Ponta Delgada, due to heavy rain that fell in São Miguel, but “the residents were not injured,” said Civil Protection.
The coordinator of Civil Protection for the municipality of Ponta Delgada, Pedro Azevedo, explained that it was “an old house, located on Avenida Príncipe de Mónaco”, in the city of Ponta Delgada and that, due to heavy rain on the island of São Miguel, ended up collapsing”.
“The couple and the two children who lived in the house are all well and have gone to their relatives,” he explained.
As for the water level in the Sete Cidades lagoon, which “has risen considerably” due to heavy rain, the official said that “the situation is resolved for now”, since “cleaning works were carried out for the natural drainage of water”.
Pedro Azevedo also said that the situations of roads that were blocked on Monday are “practically resolved”, namely in the parish of Ginetes and Arrifes, with “the cleaning work being concluded”.
In São Vicente Ferreira, the multipurpose pavilion was flooded again on Monday, and the coordinator of Civil Protection for the municipality of Ponta Delgada explained today that the situation “is resolved, but the pavilion’s floor will have to be replaced”.
The heavy rainfall caused, on Monday, several floods in homes on the islands of São Miguel and Terceira and in various public roads, according to a source from the Civil Protection.