Since last March 11 in Cuba, 2,005 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed. Just 80 days after those first three patients detected, 161 patients with the new coronavirus are hospitalized in the island; 1,760 have their lives saved and 82 people are mourned.
In a context marked by the upsurge in the blockade and the situation Cuba is experiencing before COVID-19, the Ministry of Construction has maintained vitality by giving priority to essential programs.
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.
Under the precept defended by the Cuban Government that nothing can hinder the effort to continue saving lives in the battle against COVID-19, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz continued this Friday to the usual meeting with the temporary working group to confront the new coronavirus, where it was confirmed that, despite the complex scenario and the measures taken, the country has maintained its vitality.
In the midst of the favorable scenario by which the country continues to transit in its battle against Covid-19, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led on Wednesday’s afternoon the meeting of the temporary working group to confront the new coronavirus, which emphasized the need to continue paying attention to all the details, because the success of the implemented actions depends to a large extent on its rigorous compliance.
As a result of health actions, Vietnam remains without reporting new infected with the new coronavirus for a fortnight, and remains free of deaths from that cause, according to the national commission responsible for containing the pandemic.
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 meeting of the temporary group for the prevention and control of COVID-19, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel referred to the country’s priorities in combating the disease, including clarifying details in the approach to local transmission events to cut off the spread.
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.
