Mayabeque, Cuba: In the most recent report related to the behavior of Covid-19, Mayabeque shows a slight decrease in the number of infected people with the virus when reporting 39 positive cases.
According to the official website of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), all are autochthonous, 5 do not specify the source of infection, while 34 are contacts of previously confirmed cases.
San José de las Lajas is the municipality with the highest number of cases with 12, followed by Güines and Quivicán with 5 each, Nueva Paz with 4, Bejucal, Batabanó and Jaruco with 3, while Madruga and Melena del Sur 2 each.
In his press conference, the national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), Dr. Francisco Durán García, reported that a 78-year-old Cuban citizen, from Madruga is critically ill, he has among the personal pathological antecedents Arterial Hypertension and Operated Hip Fracture. He is in Intensive Care, continues with sepsis of the surgical wound, clinical and radiological worsening in the last hours that forced to raise the ventilatory parameters, in mechanical ventilation with severe respiratory distress.
This patient is hemodynamically stable, with a tendency to arterial hypotension. Blood gases with respiratory acidosis and severe hypoxemia. Torax X ray. Radiological worsening. Increase in inflammatory lesions in both lung fields typical of severe distress pattern.
While reported as serious, there is an 86-year-old Cuban citizen residing in Nueva Paz, with a Personal Pathological History of Arterial Hypertension.
She is in Intensive Care, afebrile, disoriented, with headache, on spontaneous ventilation without supplemental oxygen, adequate saturation. She is hemodynamically stable. Preserved diuresis. Skull CT: right temporoparietal intraparenchymal hemorrhage, does not displace the midline, scarce cerebral edema.
