The epidemiological situation in the Algarve "is stabilized", after two weeks "with, practically, every day with a number of new single-digit daily cases", considered Ana Cristina Guerreiro, the Regional Health Delegate, at a press conference discussing the ongoing pandemic which took place today, the 14th, in Loulé.
Populations numbers have reached “the height of summer, at a time when the population of the Algarve has tripled" due to tourists, which in practice means that the Algarve has a ratio of less than 20 infected per 100 thousand inhabitants, that is, it is within the norms to be considered a safe region under EU guidance.
According to the Regional Health Delegate, there were five new cases of Covid-19 in the Algarve today, which, she said, has increased the total number of infected with the new coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic to 948 in the Algarve region. However, there are already 700 people who have recovered from the disease in the region, which means that there are just 229 active cases today in the Algarve.
According to José Apolinário, current Secretary of State who is also the coordinator of the State of Alert in the Algarve, the number of active cases "has been decreasing since the beginning of the month", thanks to the "work and commitment" of the regional entities, whether in the sector health or civil protection.
He gives the example of the outbreaks that emerged in the Civil Construction sector, which, according to Ana Cristina Guerreiro, became "a great concern", but which are now under control.
“As soon as these outbreaks appeared, we immediately carried out verification and awareness actions in shipyards with workers”, he recalled.
António Pina, on the other hand, shone a light on the fact that pandemic numbers have been remaining under control in the Algarve, despite the many tourists who are currently in the region. Admitting that "there are not as many as in other years", the president of AMAL stressed the behaviour of visitors who, "apart from one or another occasional situation, have been exemplary".
For this, he said, good organization also contributed, as a result of the work of the regional Health Authority, of the municipalities and other public entities, but "also of the businesses, who were able to prepare themselves" excellently.
Returning to the pandemic figures, in the Algarve hospitals there were, at midnight yesterday, nine people hospitalized with Covid-19, “none of them in intensive care”. The figures of the Regional Health Authority also account for 397 people under active surveillance.
According to the Regional Health Delegate, many of the new cases are "imported", since they are foreigners or Portuguese who are on vacation in the Algarve. “Every day we have cases of foreigners. Usually, people arrive here without symptoms and develop them when they are here,” she said.
There have also been cases related to "emigrants and foreigners working here". Ana Cristina Guerreiro clarified that the cases are "counted in the region of occurrence". In other words, all foreigners who are diagnosed in the region are considered cases in the Algarve. Even when it comes to nationals from other regions, "if they stay here for treatment" they are considered sick in the Algarve.
"If you are someone who is tested here, but then you go to your region of origin and you don't know the result, it is counted in that region," she added.
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That, for once, is quite interesting. I note they don't actually talk about how the disease is spread and whether masks and distancing work, which experts seem to agree is the case, regardless of it being a good idea or not to let it spread.
That's where you are wrong most of us (including myself) do not know how diseases are spread or how to handle epidemics.
Please read this article, the original article was published in Ha’aretz in Hebrew on July 20, 2020. I think you will find that the authors are more than qualified to offer their expertise on this matter
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/72hi9jfcqfct1n9/Haaretz-20Jul20_ENGLISH%2012082020%20v3.pdf?dl=0
I know it's been repeated here, mainly by you.
I think most of us know how diseases are spread, so if it's all the same to you I'd like to avoid having potentially infected people exercising their right to breathe on me.
Vitamin D. Of course. And hydroxy. Why weren't you there to advise the hospitals coping with an overflow of patients in intensive care? I'm sure they'd have appreciated it.
As has been repeated here before Norman, "Cases" are based on a positive result from a test that
1- Does not detect the presence of a virus
2- It cannot measure the viral load, which would indicate an infection
3- It detects viral RNA that may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or the SARS-CoV-2
4- It cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.
It is basically a useless test that was never meant to be used for diagnostics.
Your russian roulett phobia comes from a lack of understanding of how diseases are spread. Go outside get some vitamin D from the sun, you can always carry a long stick to keep the "undistanced" away.
I was worried that you'd caught something nasty and couldn't post.
Deaths have indeed dropped off, but cases haven't, and nobody, not even you with your expert sources, can tell what will happen, especially with some nasty aftereffects which only kick in weeks later. Young people - otherwise healthy - catching it may explain the decline in deaths, but that won't stop them passing it on to older people - like me - who would rather not have Russian roulette played with their health by the unmasked and undistanced who won't understand that rights/freedoms aren't absolute and that duties/responsibilities are the other side of the coin.
By the way, 'pandemic' is not defined by number of deaths, but I'm sure you knew that.
What we have now is a "Casedemic" primarily driven by PCR testing. The more you test the more cases you will find.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of people being tested are going to a hospital with symptoms and what percentage of people with no symptoms are being tested for various other reasons, work, travel, etc...
Pandemic is over Casedemic has taken over.
Where the impossible becomes possible,as long as there is money involved.
Question,what happened to the much touted flag and App system to warn people when beaches were too crowded?
From where I sit the beaches are overflowing.
So another porky.