The Cuban Government reiterated its position to maintain the measures applied in the country against COVID-19 and not to let its guard down in the face of the epidemic, even with the tendency to decrease in the number of confirmed per day, 6 on Monday, and in the number of active patients, 159 out of 1,947 since the disease reached the island.
When a new week of battle begins to COVID-19 in Cuba begins, whose first day brought encouraging news with 20 confirmed cases and 24 medical discharges in the same day, the government continues the daily analysis of the situation in the national territory, which continues on the favorable curve and therefore demands not to lower its guard for a second.
The President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, insisted this Friday that “our health personnel must protect themselves and we must protect health personnel”, in the face of the threat of Covid-19, a disease that already counts in the world more than two million confirmed cases, 923 of them in Cuba.
Fulfilling with careful attention the delivery of food to the elderly in their homes is also today a relevant measure in the confrontation with Covid-19, in the central province of Sancti Spíritus .
U.S. reports more than 10,000 deaths from the new SARS-COV-Two coronavirus, when there is a significant increase in the number of deaths per day.
The 36 isolation centers for travelers and people suspected of having contracting Covid-19, but are asymptomatic, are operating with greater attention in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, one of the most affected territories.
With a view to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Cuba, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, in meeting with the representatives of all entities involved in the Epidemic Prevention and Control Plan, indicated an intensification of the planned measures.
At the close of Monday, March 23, eight new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, for a total of 48 in the island.
