Situation Report Azores Wednesday 1st June 2022
From our colleague in the Azores
Covid-19
In the seven days from Friday 20th of May until Thursday 26th of May there were 4889 new positive cases of Covid-19 registered in the Azores, and a total of 9,279 tests performed. 4,516 people have recovered, and no deaths have been recorded with the total remaining at 111. There are a total of 4,926 active cases, 380 more than last week.
There are 24 patients in the region’s hospitals as of Thursday 26th May and none in the ICU.
98,069 people in the region have had Covid, that’s over a third of the population.
Ponta Delgada hospital with 70 inpatients breaks record since the beginning of the pandemic
The Divino Espírito Hospital (HDES), in Ponta Delgada, revealed that it has 70 patients hospitalized with covid-19, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic, which is causing a “huge load” on the unit’s services.
On Monday 30th May there were 70 ‘covid’ patients hospitalized in our wards and this is the largest number of ‘covid’ patients we have had so far, in hospital. They are spread over four wards,” said the HDES communication office.
The board of directors of the largest hospital in the region emphasizes that “it is monitoring the evolution of the situation daily”, admitting that it is “undeniable” that covid-19 “is having a huge load” on the unit’s services.
“The moment capacity is sufficient. In the future, the necessary and appropriate measures will be taken in view of the number of hospitalizations that arise”, reads the written position of the HDES.
The Ponta Delgada hospital also advances that the number of emergency room occurrences “has also broken records” due to covid-19 and “all kinds of pathologies”.
“HDES is living an exceptional time, even when we talk about this pandemic”, stresses the hospital administration.
On Thursday, the HDES announced the suspension of visits to inpatients due to the increase in the number of cases on the island of São Miguel.
On Friday, in the last weekly update on the epidemiological situation, the Regional Health Authority indicated that there were 24 people hospitalized with covid-19 in the Azores: 14 patients in Ponta Delgada, three in Horta and seven in Angra do Heroísmo. None were in intensive care.
Seven islands in the Azores under yellow warning due to rain and thunderstorms
The islands of the central and eastern groups of the Azores will be under yellow warning from Monday due to sometimes heavy rain, which can be accompanied by thunderstorms, the IPMA said in a statement today.
Man arrested for attempted murder in Ponta Delgada
The Judiciary Police, through the Criminal Investigation Department of the Azores, proceeded to the arrest of a man, due to strong indications of the practice of the crime of murder, in the attempted form, with a 42-year-old man as the victim.
According to a statement from the Judiciary Police, the “facts took place in Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel, in a context of altercation potentiated by the consumption of alcohol and other psychoactive substances, which culminated in a violent attack by the accused against the victim, producing wounds in the thoracic region, using a sharp-edged object”.
The detainee, 39 years old and with a criminal record, was presented to the competent judicial authorities, “having been applied the coercive measure of preventive detention”.