Azores Situation Report Wednesday 4th August 2021  

From our colleague in the Azores

Over 18 vaccinations

The Health Unit of São Miguel will carry out, tomorrow, August 4th, at the Vaccination Centre of Portas do Mar, in Ponta Delgada, an ‘open house’ for residents of São Miguel, aged 18 years old or over.

The ‘open house’ vaccination is intended for all citizens, residents of the island of São Miguel, aged 18 years or over and who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid-19.

They can go to the Vaccination Centre of Portas do Mar, in the Pavilion do Mar, in Ponta Delgada, between 10:00 and 18:00.

“The ‘open house’ is a simple vaccination process and does not require advance booking”, this activity is scheduled for six days with a daily assessment of adherence and 120 inoculations per hour/1000 day are planned.

Only residents or users with proof of residence with more than ninety days will be vaccinated.  If you travelled outside the Region and/or Terceira Island, you can only be vaccinated after the test result on the sixth day. Users with at risk, should not be vaccinated and users in prophylactic isolation should not be vaccinated either.

This vaccination is extended to the six municipalities on the island of São Miguel.

To expedite the process, USISM asks users to bring the citizen card and the completed questionnaire. This questionnaire can be found on the USISM website.

31st July 2021

46 new positive cases of covid-19 were diagnosed in the Azores, 43 in São Miguel, two in Terceira and one in Faial, resulting from 2,139 tests carried out in reference laboratories in the Region and one in an unconventional laboratory.

In São Miguel, two non-resident travellers, one in the parish of Pico da Pedra, in the municipality of Ribeira Grande and the other in the parish of S. José, in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, obtained positive results on the 6th day. Another non-resident traveller, from the parish of Faial da Terra, municipality of Povoação, obtained a positive result on arrival. Still a resident traveller, in the parish of São José, municipality of Ponta Delgada, presented symptoms after a negative test on arrival. The remaining cases correspond to community transmission. By municipalities, in Lagoa there were three new cases, in Ponta Delgada 15 new cases were registered, in Vila Franca do Campo there were four new cases, in Povoação there is a new case and in the municipality of Ribeira Grande there were 20 new cases.

In Terceira, a resident traveller, in the parish of Lajes, municipality of Praia da Vitória, obtained a positive result on the 6th day, the other case corresponds to community transmission. Both were registered in the municipality of Praia da Vitória.

Faial registers a new case, of a non-resident traveller, in the parish of Angústias, Horta municipality, who obtained a positive result on the 6th day.

72 recoveries were recorded.

1st August 2021

44 new covid-19 positive cases were diagnosed in the Azores, 35 in São Miguel, three in Terceira, two in São Jorge, two in Pico, one in Faial and one in Santa Maria, resulting from 2,064 tests in reference laboratories and two in a non-agreed laboratory.

In São Miguel, two non-resident travellers obtained positive results, one in the screening analysis on arrival and the other in the test prior to boarding abroad, one from the parish of S. Pedro and the other from the parish of S. José, both from Ponta Delgada municipality. The remaining cases correspond to community transmission. By municipality, Lagoa registered five new cases, the municipality of Ponta Delgada registered 17 new cases, the council of Vila Franca do Campo registered five new cases and the council of Ribeira Grande registered eight new cases.

In Terceira, a resident traveller, in the parish of Santa Luzia, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, had a positive result on arrival. The remaining cases correspond to community transmission. Thus, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo there were two new cases and in the municipality of Praia da Vitória there was a new case.

In São Jorge there were two new positive cases that are part of the active primary local transmission chain in Velas.

In Pico, two non-resident travellers, in the town and municipality of Madalena, registered positive results on the 6th day.

In Santa Maria, a resident traveller, from the parish of Santo Espírito, municipality of Vila do Porto, revealed a positive result on arrival.

40 recoveries were recorded.

2nd August 2021

49 new covid-19 positive cases were diagnosed in the Azores, 43 in São Miguel, three in Santa Maria, two in Terceira and one in Pico, resulting from 1,186 tests carried out in reference laboratories in the Region.

In São Miguel, all cases correspond to community transmission. By municipality, Lagoa registered four new cases, the municipality of Ponta Delgada registered seven new cases and the municipality of Ribeira Grande registered 32 new cases.

In Santa Maria, three non-resident travellers, in the parish of Santa Bárbara, municipality of Vila do Porto, obtained positive results, after having already performed tests on the 6th day with negative results.

In Terceira, a traveller residing in the parish of São Pedro, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, obtained a positive result for presenting symptoms before taking the 6th day test. The other case corresponds to community transmission. Both cases were registered in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo.

In Pico, a non-resident traveller, in the town and municipality of Madalena, obtained a positive result on the 6th day.

20 recoveries were recorded.

3rd August 2021

17 new covid-19 positive cases were diagnosed in the Azores, 11 in São Miguel, four in Terceira, one in São Jorge and one in Pico, resulting from 2,215 tests carried out in the reference laboratories of the Region and one in non-agreed private laboratory.

In São Miguel, one of the cases corresponds to a traveller, residing in the parish of São Pedro, in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, who obtained a positive result on arrival. All other cases correspond to community transmission. By municipality, Lagoa registered a new case, the municipality of Ponta Delgada registered four new cases, the council of Vila Franca do Campo registered one new case and the council of Ribeira Grande registered five new cases.

In Terceira, a non-resident traveller, in the parish of Santa Cruz, municipality of Praia da Vitória, obtained a positive result, already after taking a test on the 6th day with a negative result. The remaining cases corresponded to community transmission. Thus, the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo registered two new cases and the municipality of Praia da Vitória also registered two new cases.

In São Jorge, a resident traveller, in the parish of Santo Amaro, in the municipality of Velas, made an inter-island trip, obtaining a positive result upon arrival on the island.

In Pico, a non-resident traveller, in the town and municipality of Madalena, performed a test due to the presentation of symptoms, obtaining a positive result.

90 recoveries were recorded.

As of today, 14 patients are hospitalized, seven in the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, in Ponta Delgada (one in the ICU), six in the Hospital de Santo Espírito, in Angra do Heroísmo (with one in the ICU) and one at the Hospital in Faial.

The archipelago currently has 518 active positive cases, 370 in São Miguel, 111 in Terceira, 12 in São Jorge, 11 in Santa Maria, seven in Pico, four in Faial, two in Flores and one in Graciosa.

Six chains of primary local transmission are active in the archipelago, three in Pico, one in Faial, one in São Jorge and one in Flores. So far 219 have been extinct on all the islands. There are currently 1,313 people under active surveillance.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 7,745 positive cases of covid-19 have been diagnosed in the Azores, with 7,035 people having recovered from the disease, 38 died, 89 left the archipelago and 65 presented proof of previous cure. To date, 647,080 tests have been carried out to screen for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes covid-19 disease.

From December 31st, 2020 to August 2nd, 145,562 people were vaccinated in the Azores with the first dose (61.5%) and 137,897 with full vaccination (58.2 percent), under the Regional Vaccination Plan.

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