Havana: At midnight yesterday, October 13th, there are 2 thousand 959 patients admitted for clinic-epidemiological surveillance, of them under observation a thousand 943, suspected 759 and 257 confirmed, the Minsap reports on its official website.
For Covid-19 6 thousand 758 samples were studied, resulting in 18 positive samples.
The 18 cases are Cubans, 14 are contacts of confirmed cases and 4 without a known source of infection. 4 are women and 14 men. The 61% of the cases (11) were asymptomatic.
The 18 cases belong to the province of Habana 8 and Ciego de Avila 18.
Of the 6,035 patients diagnosed with the disease, 257 (4.2%) remain confirmed, 250 (97.2%) with stable clinical evolution. 123 deaths are reported (none of the day), two evacuated, 51 discharges of the day, 5 thousand 653 recovered patients (94%), two critical and five serious.
Until October 13, 185 countries with COVID-19 cases are reported, the confirmed cases amount to 37 million 875 thousand 439 (+ 306 thousand 596) and one million 81 thousand 632 deaths (+ 4 thousand 124) for a fatality of 2, 86 (-0.01).
In the region of the Americas, 18 million 144 thousand 383 confirmed cases (+ 87 thousand 923) are reported, 47.90% of the total cases reported in the world, with 595 thousand 179 deaths (+ 1 thousand 592) for a fatality of 3.28.