Havana: The National Director of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán, confirmed this Thursday one deceased and 183 new cases of Covid-19, which brings to 10,900 diagnoses since the beginning of the disease in the nation. Radio Habana Cuba reports.
At a press conference, Duran specified that 2,943 patients are admitted for clinical epidemiological surveillance, 683 suspects, 1,111 under surveillance and 1,250 confirmed, of which 945 with stable evolution.
To identify the SARS-CoV-2, 12 thousand 471 samples were studied, in this way the country accumulates one million 394 thousand 347 samples.
Of the total number of cases, 93 are autochthonous and 90 are imported, and based on these figures, 28 percent constitute contact of confirmed cases, 49 percent with a source of infection abroad, while 1.1 percent is not specified how he acquired the disease.
When detailing the territories with new infections, he stressed that of the 15 provinces only the eastern Granma and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud stop reporting cases in the last 24 hours.
The report also announced that 125 medical discharges were granted, for a cumulative of 9,503 recovered patients, while there are six in critical condition and eight serious, in intensive care.
