Yesterday there were no deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. “The light is starting to be seen,” said Dr. Francisco Durán regarding this data, before announcing that, after 5,855 tests carried out, the number of new contagions had dropped to 52; 24 were imported and 28 are local.
Five provinces reported autochthonous cases: Havana, Ciego de Ávila, Matanzas, Artemisa and Pinar del Río. “A great dispersion,” said Durán, as the imported cases involve 13 territories, related in today’s report.
All are Cuban: 23 had contact with confirmed cases, in five the source of infection is not specified and, as noted, 24 had the source of infection abroad, a group of patients that has now risen to 413 in Cuba since the pandemic began.
Se confirmaron 52 nuevos casos de #COVID19, para un acumulado de 4 266 en #Cuba
677 positivos activos
656 con evolución clínica estable
4 pacientes en estado crítico
17 pacientes en estado grave
100 fallecidos
3 487 altas médicas
2 evacuadoshttps://t.co/udVTcuqd9L pic.twitter.com/nI9MmcJFg6— Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) September 4, 2020
14 men, 38 women and 37 of the total were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis.
By age group, the most affected continue being those between 22 and 39 years, with 22 cases, and between 40 and 59, with 19. Seven were under 20 and four were over 60.
The director of epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) also highlighted the increase in daily tests carried out with the aim of detecting asymptomatic people who affect the community and announced that they would soon exceed 6,000 per day.
The number of discharges was low, 13 for a day in which 21 people were still in intensive care: four in critical condition and 17, seriously ill.
At dawn yesterday, September 3, 1,495 patients were hospitalized for clinical epidemiological surveillance, while active confirmed cases amounted to 677.
With the 5,855 samples analyzed on Thursday, Cuba has processed a total of 420,273 tests in search of the new coronavirus, of which 4,266 have been positive.
