Havana, Cuba: The national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, Dr. Francisco Durán, reported this Wednesday nine deaths and 912 positive samples for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, for a cumulative of 948 thousand 847 diagnoses since the beginning of the disease in the nation, Radio Habana Cuba publishes.
During his usual press conference, the specialist reported that at midnight yesterday 14,650 patients were admitted, of them 8,210 suspects, 1,592 in epidemiological surveillance and 4,848 confirmed assets.
Durán explained that the country analyzed 21 thousand 29 samples for a cumulative of 10 million 425 thousand 790 samples analyzed.
The epidemiologist announced that of the 912 patients, 98 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis, 909 have a source of infection in previously confirmed cases, one has a source of infection abroad and in two people the source of infection is unknown.
Of the total confirmed, 433 are male and 479 female. Regarding the age groups, 149 children under 18 years of age were diagnosed, and 136 were diagnosed in pediatric ages (13 under one year of age). In the ages of 20 to 39 years, 233 cases were confirmed, between 40 and 59 years 295 cases and 235 people older than 60 years.
He specified that, of the 948 thousand 847 patients diagnosed with the disease from the beginning of it, 4 thousand 848 confirmed hospitalizations of them 4 thousand 718 with stable clinical evolution. 8,210 deaths are reported (nine in the last day), for a fatality of 0.86. The two evacuees remain, 55 returnees and 935 thousand 732 recovered patients accumulate (thousand 382 discharges of the day). 48 critically ill patients and 82 critically ill patients are reported.
