Cuba with 50 new positive cases of Covid-19, total thousand 285

Cuba with 50 new positive cases of Covid-19, total thousand 285
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported today 50 new patients with Covid-19, which brings the number of confirmed cases to 1,285, while six others died and 51 were discharged from hospitals on the last day.

 

In his dailyl morning press conference, Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology of the Minsap, reported that the new positive cases are all Cuban, 45 of them were contacts of confirmed or suspected cases, and the source of infection of five is being investigated.

As stated, 36 of the 50 new confirmed cases were asymptomatic, an amount that represents 72 percent of the last people positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, causing the disease.

On the other hand, a new group of 51 recovered patients, a figure that amounts to 416. These people went home for another two weeks to continue their follow-up from Primary Health Care.

Dr. Durán mourned the deaths of six patients in the last 24 hours, for a total of 49.

Despite the efforts of the team of doctors from the hospitals where they were admitted, the patients died from complications associated with the disease and other pathologies in their clinical condition.

The specialist also explained that seven patients are in critical condition, and four are reported as serious.

The day before, 1,891 diagnostic tests were studied to confirm the presence of the coronavirus, and to date, a total of 36,134 samples have been collected from people admitted as suspects and contacts of patients confirmed with the disease.

Throughout the Caribbean island, a plan of measures is adopted to minimize the spread of the pandemic, with a multi-sectorial approach, for which the highest authorities insist on social isolation and self-responsibility as ways to curb contagion.

Health authorities reiterate the importance of being aware of reporting any kind of symptoms and immediately isolating themselves from family and friends.

As of April 23, 182 countries with Covid-19 cases are reported, with two million 588 thousand 68 confirmed cases and 182 thousand 808 deaths, which brings the case fatality rate to 7.06 percent.

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