Madeira Situation Report Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Brief Covid-19 update
On June 19th, there were 95 patients hospitalised in the general Covid-19 unit (22 non-vaccinated, 1 vaccinated with the first shot, 72 fully vaccinated), and 1 hospitalised patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit (fully vaccinated). As for the age of the hospitalised patients who were in the general Covid-19 unit, 27 are aged 18-65 and 68 are 65 or older. The patient in intensive care is aged 65 or older.
There were 15 deaths from June 13th to June 19th. There had been a total of 320 deaths.
On June 21st, it was announced that there had been 8 new Covid-19 cases in the Region’s schools in the previous 24 hours (5 students, 2 teachers and 1 non-teaching member of staff).
Extra Porto Santo ferry services on June 26th
Porto Santo Line informed there will be extra ferry services to and from Porto Santo on June 26th. This is intended to encourage more visitors to Porto Santo during the weekend of St. John’s festival.
The timetable of the ferry services on that day will be:
Funchal – Porto Santo: 08h00 & 16h30 (extra)
Porto Santo – Funchal: 13h00 (extra) & 20h000
To amend the booking (free of charge), the customers must do so by visiting one of the Porto Santo Line branches:
– Estrada Monumental, number 175C, Funchal (open from Monday to Sunday – 09h-12h30 & 14h00-20h00)
– Rua D. Estevão de Alencastre, Loja 6/7, Porto Santo (open from Monday to Friday – 09h00-12h30 & 14h00-18h00
Alternatively, passengers can call 291 210 300 from Monday to Friday (09h00-12h300 & 14h00-18h00) or send an email to infopsl@gruposousa.pt.
Madeira Airport to have flights to 26 countries during the summer
Miguel Albuquerque, the President of the Madeira Regional Government, revealed that Madeira Airport will have flights to to 26 countries during the summer. This a 73% increase in comparison to 2019 (11 countries). There will be flights to 60 airports, an increase of 20% (10 more airports than in 2019). He has no doubts that everything is in place for the Region to benefit from a good summer season.
Wizzair started flights to Madeira
Wizzair’s first flight to Madeira took place on June 18th. The aircraft, carrying about 240 passengers, laded in Funchal after 19h00.
Power cut
Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira (Madeira power supplier) announced there will be power cuts due to scheduled work on the electricity supply network. These cannot be postponed and will take place in the following days and places:
RIBEIRA BRAVA
June 22th – 09h00 to 09h45 & 15h30-16h00 (TODAY)
– Cruz e Caldeira
– Cova
– Cabouco
– Fonte do Pinheiro
– Terça
– Fajã das Flores
– Vale (partial)
– Moreno (partial)
– Caminho do Chão
SANTA CRUZ
June 22th – 09h00 to 12h00 (TODAY)
– Cova das Pedras
– Morena
– Caminho do Ribeiro do Eixo
– Caminho do Estreito
– Caminho do Pomar
– Caminho do Mosqueiro
– Rua da Morena
However, power could be restored during the time frame mentioned above. So, for safety purposes, it should be assumed that there will be power at any time during this period of time
If necessary, customers can contact the free Customer Support Service number (Serviço de Apoio ao Cliente): 800 221 187.