20 May, 2020
Cuba’s authorities keep the alarm about SARS-CoV-2 virus
Cuba’s authorities raised yesterday the alarm about SARS-CoV-2 virus despite the encouraging behavior of the Covid-19 pandemic recently.
The 26 brigades of Cuban doctors from the Henry Reeve Contingent who are working today in about twenty countries, have so far treated more than 26,000 patients from Covid-19.
The first stage of the study on seroprevalence (presence of antibodies) and prevalence of Covid-19 in this eastern Cuban province did not record any positive case of this disease in the 113 families tested.
Cubans living in Panama have joined the international rejection and condemnation of the United States government for including Cuba on its list of those they describe as not collaborating in the fight against terrorism.
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero called to continue to fight illegalities and corruption, amid the combat against the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the close of yesterday, May 18, 824 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 2,053 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
The number of patients recovered from Covid-19 in Cuba increased to 1,505 with the addition of 10 new medical discharges, the Ministry of Public Health said today.
At the close of yesterday, May 15, 981 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 3,365 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
In view of the real and encouraging fact of the downward trend in statistics related to Covid-19 in the country, the Cuban government reiterated this Friday the call to maintain discipline, today more than ever, and take responsibility for each of the measures taken to contain the expansion of a disease that has claimed in the world the lives of more than 296 thousand people.
At the close of yesterday, May 13, 46 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 2,794 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
The news related to Covid-19 in Cuba was again stimulating last Wednesday, with the confirmation of only six cases, the lowest figure since the end of March. . 49 medical discharges granted in the day join to it: a favorable trend consolidating in the country and marks a crucial point in the confrontation with the pandemic.
As every May 12, we celebrate today International Nursing Day, in commemoration of Florence Nightingale´s birth, founder of this profession, a woman of health and renewing conceptions, which marked a starting point for development in health systems in the world.
This Monday, which marked two months of the first confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Cuba, confirmed the favorable trend of the latest dates, with 17 positive samples, 36 medical discharges in the day and no deceased: numbers that are the result of the battle of an entire country against an illness affecting four million people in the world and has killed more than 278 thousand.
The intense working day on Monday, which began in the Palace of the Revolution with the participation of President of the Republic Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, in the Online Summit level Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group under the theme of “United against COVID-19 pandemic”, had as a culmination the usual meeting of the temporary working group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, headed daily by the Head of State and the Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.
At the close of yesterday, May 4, 2 thousand 267 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 6,047 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
As every afternoon since the beginning of March, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led the meeting of the temporary working group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, an inviolable appointment in the Palace of Revolution since the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Cuba, a dangerous disease confirmed until this Wednesday in 1,467 people in the national territory.
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.
At the close of yesterday, April 24, 3,462 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 6,560 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.