Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced this Tuesday more drastic closure measures to face the high incidence of COVID-19 in the country, insisting on the need for people to act responsibly.
From his Twitter account, he assured that the low perception of risk is the greatest danger. “An alarming start of April, with a daily average of more than a thousand cases, most of them in Havana. In the next few hours there will be more drastic closure measures, as occurred in the first outbreak of COVID-19,” he wrote.
In addition, he urged the population to have a more responsible collective action “for the good of our families and the country: distancing, hygiene and masks.”
He said that more than 90,000 volunteers are already receiving the second dose of the nationally produced Soberana 02 and Abdala vaccine candidates.
He also announced that it will take months for Cuba to be fully immunized.
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Health authorities reported 1,030 new COVID-19 cases this Tuesday. Cuba exceeded a thousand confirmed cases in 24 hours for seven days in a row.
The national director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán, said that this figure shows the national epidemiological situation, with more than 80,600 people diagnosed with COVID-19 since March 2020.
Cuba’s incidence rate increased in the last fifteen days to 122.6 per 100,000 inhabitants.