Havana, Cuba: The national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, Dr. Francisco Durán, reported this Wednesday 28 deaths and 2,254 positive samples for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, for a cumulative 926 1,320 diagnoses since the beginning of the disease in the nation, Radio Habana Cuba reports.
During his usual press conference, the specialist reported that at midnight yesterday 33,953 patients were admitted, of them 17,957 suspects, 2,485 in epidemiological surveillance and 13,511 confirmed assets.
Durán explained that the country analyzed 27,279 samples the day before for a cumulative of 10 million 49,157 samples analyzed.
The epidemiologist announced that, of the 2,354 patients, 178 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis, 2,344 have a source of infection in previously confirmed cases, 8 have a source of infection abroad and in 2 people the source of contagion is unknown, .2 thousand 346 are autochthonous.
Of the total confirmed, 1,143 are male and 1,211 female. Regarding age groups, 500 were diagnosed under 18 years of age, and 476 in pediatric ages (26 under one year). In the ages 20 to 39 years, 573 cases were confirmed, between 40 and 59 years 693 cases and 588 people older than 60 years.
He specified that, of the 926 thousand 320 patients diagnosed with the disease since the beginning of it, 13 thousand 511 confirmed hospitalizations of them 13 thousand 196 with stable clinical evolution. 7,956 deaths are reported (28 in the last day) for a fatality of 0.86. The two evacuees remain, 55 returnees and 904 thousand 796 recovered patients accumulate (4 thousand 99 discharges of the day). 89 patients in critical condition and 226 patients in serious condition are reported.
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