Havana: Cuba reported this Thursday 2952 people positive for the new coronavirus and 18 deaths in the last 24 hours as a result of the disease, Radio Havana Cuba reports.
In the usual press conference, Dr. Francisco Durán García, Director of the Department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported that 43 410 patients are admitted, 11 082 are suspected cases; 15,771 are under surveillance and 16,557 are active.
Durán explained that the day before 36,202 samples were processed throughout the country for an accumulated of 5,169,286 samples taken since the beginning of the pandemic, 193,945 people (3.7%) diagnosed and 1,302 fatalities.
As for the cases diagnosed in the day 2904 are autochthonous and 48 imported. 2810 patients are contacts of confirmed cases and 48 with a source of infection abroad. The source of infection for 94 people could not be determined.
Of the total confirmed patients, 698 were asymptomatic and 1572 were female and 1380 were male. 487 people under 20 years of age were diagnosed, 438 of them in pediatric ages.
The other confirmed patients belong to the age groups: 20-39 years: 893; 40-59 years: 1017; 60 years and over: 555.
Distribution by province of confirmed cases:
Pinar del Río: 77 cases
Artemisa: 126 cases
Havana: 399 cases
Mayabeque: 186 cases
Matanzas: 415 cases
Cienfuegos: 79 cases
Villa Clara: 145 cases
Sancti Spíritus: 216 cases
Ciego de Ávila: 133 cases
Camaguey: 354 cases
Las Tunas: 127 cases
Granma: 85 cases
Holguín: 162 cases
Santiago de Cuba: 300 cases
Guantanamo: 148 cases
Of the 193 thousand 945 patients diagnosed with the disease, 16 thousand 557 remain hospitalized, of them 16 thousand 373 with stable clinical evolution. There are 1 302 deaths (18 on the day), two evacuees, 54 returned to their countries, on the day there were 1879 discharges, 176 thousand 030 recovered patients accumulate (90.7%). There are 77 patients reported critically ill and 107 severely ill, cared for in intensive care.
Until June 30, 190 countries and 30 territories with COVID-19 cases are reported, the confirmed cases amount to 182 million 794 thousand 34 (+ 392 thousand 64) with 11 million 487 thousand 125 active cases and 3 million 957 thousand 208 deaths (+ 7,891) for a fatality of 2.16 (-0.01).
In the region of the Americas, 73 million 332 thousand 553 confirmed cases (+ 155 thousand 973) are reported, 40.11% of the total cases reported in the world, with 7 million 455 thousand 273 active cases and 1 million 918 thousand 589 deceased (+ 4,1151) for a fatality of 2.62 (=).