The reported discharges involved 768 people and with them, 54,862 patients recovered from the coronavirus on the island. 77 patients in intensive care.

A peak was also reported, this time related to infected minors. According to Dr. Francisco Durán, of the 130 children under 20 who were identified yesterday, 122 had not reached the age of majority and represented 15.7% of the infections, the highest in twelve months.

Out of about twenty people who left Cuba by sea on March 1, two minors and their 28-year-old mother, as well as two other rafters, have not been found so far by the Bahamas authorities and the United States Coast Guard.

The baby, named Helen, was born without traces of the virus, the product of a cesarean section performed on her mother by an experienced multidisciplinary team at the Manuel Fajardo Military Hospital, in the central province of Villa Clara.

Regarding new infections, the majority (764) correspond to autochthonous transmission and eight were imported cases.

According to the statistics on autochthonous and imported infections, this is the third highest figure; however, the decrease in imported cases, to 11 this time, made the disease caused by community infection predominate. Two deaths were also reported.

COVID-19 has not been able to dent their spirit. On the contrary: it has forced them to come into their own in a risky context for health and life.

With the two deaths, the coronavirus pandemic has left 350 victims on the island, where the death rate is 0.62%.

The Ministry of Public Health reported this Saturday 858 new cases of coronavirus, 890 discharges and four deaths, including a doctor from the Cuban health system. A total of 95 municipalities reported at least one positive case.

During the day, there were three deaths, 752 medical discharges and 68 patients in intensive care.

According to the official website of the upcoming Olympic Games, Juan Miguel Echevarría “will undoubtedly be one of the great contenders for the podium” in the Japanese capital, and “aims to beat the world record” of 8.95 meters, in the hands of American Mike Powell since 1991.

The majority of COVID-19 cases (770) are due to the autochthonous transmission of the virus and 742 of them are related to confirmed cases, according to the report issued this Friday by the Ministry of Public Health.

On December 24, the oral and public trial corresponding to case number four of 2020 was held, for the crimes of sabotage and other acts against State Security, in which Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Yoandris Ortiz, Raidel Sánchez, Joaquín Camejo and Lázaro Yerson appeared as defendants, according to a note from that judicial institution, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency reported.

Havana continues to report more daily cases, followed today by Camagüey, Mayabeque, Guantánamo, Pinar del Río and Santiago de Cuba, although all provinces reported infections.

In addition to Guantánamo, the effectiveness study covers the provincial capital of Santiago de Cuba.

The island is preparing to begin the third phase of clinical trials of its vaccine candidates Soberana 02, in Havana, and Abdala, in Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo; it also plans to carry out the second stage of the study with Soberana 01 in the province of Cienfuegos.

Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó gave an update through her Twitter account regarding the official employment figures after the start of the monetary reorganization this January 1.

The family doctors and nurses, as well as students of the last years of the medical career will be in charge of applying the interferon therapy through the nose that, after the Cuban capital, will be validated to be extended to other parts of the country.

Of the total of new SARS-CoV-2 infections, 895 are due to autochthonous transmission and 869 were related to confirmed cases.

Havana increased the number of confirmed daily cases by 211 with respect to the previous day, with a great dispersion in its 15 municipalities. Two of the four deceased of the day lived here; the rest in Granma and Artemisa.

Havana’s ambassador in Paramaribo announced this “possibility” during a meeting with the leader of the National Party (NPS), Gregory Rusland, on the challenges posed by the new coronavirus pandemic and the global economic crisis for both countries.

The Cubans were traveling from Tuxpan to the Cuban Consulate located in the city of Boca del Río, after they had allegedly been summoned, according to their fellow students at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), who reported the disappearance.

The versatile musician and singer will share the stage with other prominent Cuban artists such as Dafnis Prieto and Julio Montalvo at the Global Cuba Fest, which will take place on March 6.

The decrease in people in the beach resorts has made it possible to carry out work with large machinery and dumping of sand on beaches of important tourist destinations such as Varadero, declared the director of the Commercial Division of Coastal Engineering of the company Inversiones Gamma S.A., Ernesto Tristá.

Havana continues to be the province where transmission is greatest. The territory remains in the lead by incidence rate, followed by Mayabeque, Pinar del Río, Santiago de Cuba, the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud and Guantánamo.