Cuba today reports 1,079 COVID-19 cases and seven deaths, in worst month of the pandemic for the country
In May, the island accumulated until the 29th a total of 33,544 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases and 296 deaths.
In May, the island accumulated until the 29th a total of 33,544 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases and 296 deaths.
The 10 deaths as a result of COVID-19 correspond to eight men and two women residing in municipalities of Havana, Mayabeque and Ciego de Ávila. With them, the death toll now stands at 943 and the fatality rate is 0.67%.
In the statement, the MINREX recalls that the administration of former President Donald Trump had issued this same classification on June 2, 2020, as a preliminary step for the inclusion of Cuba in the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
“It does not agree with our institution’s vocation of service or with the interest of the public to which it owes itself,” the Museum said in a note.
Of the total of new infections, 1,135 are due to autochthonous transmission, 1,100 were contacts of confirmed cases and 34 were imported cases, mostly due to Cuban travelers from Russia (32), Spain (one) and the United States (one).
The Cuban players traveled to Florida on Wednesday afternoon, where they will play as of next Monday in the Pre-Olympic baseball qualifying tournament.
“The idea is that any Cuban can have that digital passport printed, in the application on a mobile phone, send it by mail to the interested party or that it can be seen as an image on the cell phone,” explained Allan Pierra Fuentes, director of the Technological Support Center of the University of Computer Sciences (UCI).
The cases in ICUs was close to the highest number, which was reported on May 13, when 143 people were bedridden from COVID-19. Today, of the 141, 48 are reported in critical condition, 93 in serious condition. There were four minors among them.
It’s called Havana Club Profundo, a Super Premium aged white rum.
The project is part of the South-South cooperation proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013.
The group demands that its works exhibited in the permanent and temporary exhibition rooms of the National Museum of Fine Arts “be covered in such a way as to prevent their communication with the public and that those that are not on exhibit also be withdrawn from the Museum’s website” while their demands are not met, including the release of opposition activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, admitted for three weeks in a Havana hospital.
Active cases decreased to 6,786 and there were 1,260 discharges on the day, with which 128,874 patients have already recovered from COVID-19 on the island.
Dr. Francisco Durán said that the measures have been taken taking into account and given the appearance of infections in the community, after the arrival of travelers, mostly Cubans, who are responsible for the imported infections.
“The key is to sternly demand compliance with the established measures, which are precisely determined in each of the municipalities,” said Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, president of the Provincial Defense Council (CDP) of the Cuban capital.
Of the 1,291 infections, 1,249 occurred by autochthonous transmission, predominant in recent months, although Dr. Francisco Durán stressed in his daily press conference that high numbers of imported cases have also been registered, 42 this day.
The figure represents 918,387 fewer visitors compared to a similar period in 2020, Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) disclosed on its website.
Infections decreased to 1,155, of them 1,118 were due to autochthonous transmission, 1,078 were contacts of confirmed cases and 37 were imported cases, with an incidence of Cuban travelers from Russia (33), Dominican Republic (two), Poland (one) and Panama (one).
The draft of the Criminal Procedure Law recognizes the right of all accused to have a lawyer within 24 hours, if they are detained, and within five days after the complaint, if they are free.
In addition, this Sunday the island again reported 14 deaths in one day, with which the death toll from COVID-19 now stands at 223 in the fifth month of 2021 and 877 throughout the pandemic.
The authorities continue to carry out the health intervention against the new coronavirus.
At a meeting on the future Family Code, the president pointed out that the code will undergo a referendum “because of its importance, because they are issues with a very wide-ranging conception, which encompass our entire society,” and reaffirmed that it is not restricted only to the issue of same-sex marriage but rather that “it is much more.”
In just 20 days in May, 22,921 cases have been reported, with an average of 1,146 per day. In that period, COVID-19 caused the death of 195 people, with which the death toll already stands at 849 and to date the fatality rate remains at 0.65%.
However, Cuban specialists aspire to higher figures, as confirmed by the Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Dr. Verena Muzio.
The immunization process is being carried out in 44 sites located in the province’s 13 municipalities.
The measure took effect this May 20.
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