Havana, Cuba: At midnight yesterday, August 3, 97 thousand 799 patients are admitted, 47 thousand 709 suspects, 3 thousand 977 under surveillance and 46 thousand 113 confirmed active, the Ministry of Public Health publishes in its official website.
For COVID-19, a total of 39 thousand 671 samples were made for surveillance during the day, resulting in 9 thousand 363. The country accumulates 6 million 688 thousand 393 samples taken and 422 thousand 614 positive (6.3%).
Of the total cases (9,363): 9,324 were contacts of confirmed cases; 12 with a source of infection abroad; 27 without a specified source of infection.
Of the 9,363 cases diagnosed, 4,951 were female and 4,412 male.
5.0% (467) of the 9363 positive cases were asymptomatic, accumulating a total of 108,274, which represents 25.6% of those confirmed to date.
The 9,363 cases diagnosed belong to the age groups: under 20 years old: 1,893, 20 to 39 years old: 2,705, 40 to 59 years old: 3,021 and over 60: 1,744.
Residence by province of the confirmed cases:
Pinar del Río: 334, Artemisa: 615, Havana: 1445, Mayabeque: 332, Matanzas: 758, Cienfuegos: 1032, Villa Clara: 723, Sancti Spíritus: 262, Ciego de Ávila: 1192, Camagüey: 452, Las Tunas: 230, Granma: 236, Holguín: 541, Santiago de Cuba: 737 and Guantánamo: 474.
Of the 422 thousand 614 patients diagnosed with the disease, 46 thousand 113 remain hospitalized, of them 45 thousand 745 with stable clinical evolution. There are 3 091 deaths (98 in the day), a fatality rate of 0.73% vs 2.13% in the world and 2.59% in the Americas; two evacuees, 54 returned to their countries, on the day there were 9,118 discharges, 373 thousand 354 recovered patients accumulate (88.3%). 368 confirmed patients are cared for in intensive care, 140 of them critical and 228 seriously ill.
On the day, 98 deceased patients were reported.
Residence by province of the deceased people:
Ciego de Ávila (23), Havana (11), Cienfuegos (10), Holguín (9), Guantánamo (), Villa Clara (5), Santiago de Cuba (5) , Mayabeque (5), Camagüey (5), Artemisa (3), Matanzas (3), Sancti Spíritus (3), Granma (3), Las Tunas (2), Pinar del Río (1).
Until August 03, 190 countries and 32 territories with cases of COVID-19 are reported, amounting to 199 million 863 thousand 13 confirmed cases (+ 431 thousand 500) with 15 million 323 thousand 9 active cases and 4 million 253 thousand 849 deaths (+ 7,792) for a fatality of 2.13% (=).
In the region of the Americas, 78 million 415 thousand 299 confirmed cases (+ 135 thousand 309) are reported, 39.23% of the total cases reported in the world, with 7 million 534 thousand 187 active cases and 2 million 34 thousand 585 deaths (+ 1 thousand 951) for a fatality of 2.59% (-0.01).
