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.
Although numbers continue to mark a decreasing trend in all COVID-19-related indicators in Cuba, the Government continues the daily check to the country’s epidemiological situation, under the premise of not neglecting for a second this frontal fight to the epidemic, which began at the beginning of March and in which the end point has not yet occurred.
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.
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 National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, MINSAP, Francisco Duran reported this Thursday that at the close of Wednesday 26 new positive cases are confirmed to COVID-19, for a cumulative figure of one thousand 729 in Cuba, and announced the unfortunate death of four people.
At the close of yesterday, April 15, 2 thousand 629 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 5,960 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
The Minister of Public Health, Dr. Jose Angel Portal, reported that at the close yesterday, 61 new patients were confirmed with Covid-19, for a cumulative 457 positive cases, and announced the unfortunate death of a Cuban woman.
At the close of Monday, March 23, eight new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, for a total of 48 in the island.
