Havana, Cuba: The national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, Dr. Francisco Durán, reported this Tuesday ten deaths and 975 samples positive for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, for an accumulated of 947 thousand 935 diagnoses since the beginning of the disease in the nation.
During his usual press conference, the specialist reported that at midnight yesterday 15,137 patients were admitted, of them 8,419 suspects, 1,391 in epidemiological surveillance and 5,327 confirmed assets.
Durán explained that the country analyzed 19,548 samples the day before for a cumulative of 10 million 404 thousand 761 samples analyzed.
The epidemiologist announced that, of the 975 patients, 98 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis, 967 have a source of infection in previously confirmed cases, 7 have a source of infection abroad and in one person the source of infection is unknown.
Of the total confirmed, 448 are male and 527 female. Regarding the age groups, 205 were diagnosed under 18 years of age, and 192 in pediatric ages. In the ages of 20 to 39 years, 231 cases were confirmed, between 40 and 59 years 278 cases and 261 people older than 60 years.
He specified that, of the 947,935 patients diagnosed with the disease since the beginning of it, 5,327 confirmed hospitalizations of them 5,195 with stable clinical evolution. 8,201 deaths are reported (ten in the last day), for a fatality of 0.86. The two evacuees remain, 55 returnees and 934 thousand 350 recovered patients accumulate (thousand 399 discharges of the day). 49 patients in critical condition and 83 patients in serious condition are reported.
