Azores Situation Report Wednesday – 25th August 2021
From our colleague in the Azores
Covid -19
Since the last Situation Report a week ago on the 18th of August there have been 195 new cases of Covid-19 registered and 267 recoveries.
According to the Regional Health Authority on the 19th of August there was another death. It was “a 64-year-old man, resident in Livramento, municipality of Ponta Delgada, who was hospitalized at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, in Ponta Delgada and died from Covid-19 , but he had several comorbidities”.
As of yesterday, 15 patients are hospitalised, all at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada, with four in Intensive Care Unit.
The archipelago currently registers 372 positive active cases: 325 on the island of São Miguel, 14 on the island of Terceira, 14 on the island of Graciosa, 11 on the island of Faial, five on the island of Santa Maria and three on the island of São Jorge.
Four primary local transmission chains are active in the archipelago: two on the island of Graciosa, one on the island of Faial and one shared between the islands of Faial and São Jorge. To date, 229 have been extinguished on all islands. There are 684 people under active surveillance today.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 8,585 positive cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores and 8,008 people have recovered from the disease. There have been 41 deaths, 92 people who left the archipelago and 72 cases with history of previous cure. To date, 672,876 tests have been carried out for SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.
From 31st of December 2020 to 16th August, 167,580 people in the Azores have been vaccinated with the first dose (67,9 per cent) and 152,369 with complete vaccination (64,4 per cent), under the Regional Vaccination Plan.
Ship Rescue
A commercial ship with seven crew members on board, adrift about 6.5 kilometres from the island of São Jorge, in the Azores, due to a breakdown, was rescued today by elements of the captaincy of the port of Horta, according to the authorities.
In a statement, the National Maritime Authority (AMN) said that the seven elements of the adrift ship were doing well, with a malfunction in the ship’s propulsion system having been detected, with water entering the engine room.
The damaged ship was later towed by the pilot vessel of the port authority of the port of Velas, for safety reasons for navigation, to the port of Velas, where it docked at 18:10.
Third Vaccination
The Government of the Azores is going to start preparing the vaccination process against covid-19 with a third dose for the most vulnerable.
The regional secretary for Health and Sports, Clélio Meneses, said that “it was determined to start preparing the process of vaccination of a third dose to the most vulnerable population”