Havana: The daily numbers of people positive for COVID-19 in Cuba do not decrease. The increasing trend in recent months continues to be confirmed each day and this Thursday was no exception: 923 cases, 887 of them with a source of infection in the national territory, published the Cuban News Agency.
Today 62.6% of those reports are in the provinces of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. From 76 municipalities of the Cuban archipelago, new infected with SARS-CoV-2 were reported, including 15 from the capital, nine from Mayabeque and seven from Santiago, which account for the spread of the disease particularly in those territories, reported the Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, at the meeting where every afternoon he reports to the highest leadership of the country on the epidemiological situation of the nation.
The owner explained that 5,098 people confirmed with the new coronavirus remain in hospital institutions, after 928 medical discharges were granted this Thursday. In pediatric ages, he pointed out, we have 647 cases, all with good evolution. At the same time 39 pregnant women and five recently delivered, carriers of the virus, are cared for. Of these, only one is currently in a state of gravity.
Patients affected by this complex disease continue to arrive at the intensive care wards of several provinces and at the time this official part was exposed in the Palace of the Revolution, 22 people were reported critical and 40 serious.
This Thursday the death of five more people was lamented – four from Havana and one from Pinar del Río -, with which there are 282 deaths since last March, for a fatality of 0.68%, which is low compared to the figures that the world suffers, but is considered high for all the efforts that the country is deploying.
Today, the delay between the onset of symptoms and admission to hospital, especially of the most vulnerable people, continues to be one of the main causes of the increase in these figures. According to Portal Miranda, of the confirmed patients this Thursday, 5.9% took more than 48 hours to reach health institutions.
The Minister also reported that state sanitary inspectors had applied 670 fines in the day being evaluated, especially for not using the means of protection or doing it incorrectly, violating the restriction of movement and not using disinfectant solutions for hands and surfaces on entities.
In the exchange with the provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, it was valued, for example, that Pinar del Río maintains a sustained increase in cases and the measures adopted do not manage to reverse the advance of the outbreak there. In this regard, President Díaz-Canel warned about the transmission events generated in two state institutions, which have made the situation even more complex and have caused the province to regress its indicators.
The situation in Havana, Mayabeque, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, provinces with complicated epidemiological scenarios and with a tendency to continue to become more complex, was also analyzed. The other provinces were also evaluated, although their indicators remain under control.