Havana, Cuba: At midnight yesterday, March 22, a total of 8,922 patients were admitted, 5,460 suspected, 29 under surveillance, and 3,433 confirmed active.
For COVID-19, a total of 11,227 samples were carried out for surveillance on the day, with 811 being positive. The country has accumulated 13,340,356 samples carried out and 1,083,691 positives.
Of the total cases (811): 771 were contacts of confirmed cases; 8 with a foreign source of infection; 32 with no specified source of infection. Of the 811 diagnosed cases, 446 were female and 365 male.
3.0% (24) of the 811 positive cases were asymptomatic, accumulating a total of 145,752, which represents 13.4% of those confirmed to date.
The 811 diagnosed cases belong to the age groups: under 20 years old (204), 20 to 39 years old (186), 40 to 59 years old (227), 60 and over (194).
Residence by province of the confirmed cases:
Pinar del Río: 27, Artemisa: 17, Havana: 49, Mayabeque: 52, Matanzas: 36, Cienfuegos: 20, Villa Clara: 73, Sancti Spíritus: 95, Ciego de Ávila: 149, Camagüey: 70, Las Tunas: 54, Granma: 26, Holguín: 44, Santiago de Cuba: 87, Guantánamo: 10 and Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality: 2.
Of the million 083 thousand 691 patients diagnosed with the disease, 3 thousand 433 remain hospitalized, of them 3 thousand 415 with stable clinical evolution. There are 8,508 deaths (no deaths are reported on the day), lethality of 0.79% vs 1.29% in the world and 1.78% in the Americas; two evacuated and 57 returned to their countries. On the day there were 712 discharges, 1 million 071 thousand 691 recovered patients (98.9%) accumulate. 18 confirmed patients are treated in intensive care, of which 5 are critical and 13 are seriously ill.
Until March 22, 191 countries and 42 territories with cases of COVID-19 are reported in the world, rising to 473 million 332 thousand 040 the number of confirmed (+ 1 million 625 thousand 098) with respect to the previous report with 57 million 765 thousand 471 active cases and 6 million 108 thousand 431 deaths (+ 5 thousand 266) for a lethality of 1.29% (-0.01).
In the region of the Americas, 151 million 799 thousand 401 confirmed cases (+ 55 thousand 684) are reported, 32.1% of the total cases reported in the world, with 20 million 045 thousand 380 active cases and 2 million 705 thousand 109 deceased (+ 1 thousand 306) for a lethality of 1.78% (-0.01).
