Health authorities report today that in Cuba the numbers of SARS-CoV-2 virus infections rose in the last 24 hours after the diagnosis of 13 positive cases in Artemisa and Villa Clara.
Twelve of these cases are confined to the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, where, according to Dr. Francisco Durán in his appearance before the press, there was a recently detected focus, “as a consequence of violation of the health measures.”
|Información diaria|
Se confirmaron 13 nuevos casos de #COVID19, para un acumulado de 2 mil 462 en #Cuba47 positivos activos
46 con evolución clínica estable
0 pacientes en estado grave
1 paciente en estado crítico
87 fallecidos
2 326 altas
2 evacuadoshttps://t.co/mEgWUxx20Q pic.twitter.com/ttgcCQjjHl— Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) July 22, 2020
They are Cubans; 12 of them contacts of confirmed cases. Only in one individual was the source of contagion not specified and this is the case of Placetas, Villa Clara.
Seven were women; and of the total infections, eight were asymptomatic.
By age ranges, 5 belong to the group between 20 and 40 years old, while five were under 20, the same number as in the 41 to 60 age group; 5 patients were discharged yesterday, while one person was reported critically ill.
For ten days there have been no reports of deaths due to the new coronavirus in Cuba, where until midnight on Tuesday 21, 181 patients were still hospitalized and 254 persons were under primary healthcare surveillance.
For yesterday, 2,714 tests were made, for a total of 234,817 since the start of the pandemic in Cuba, where 2,462 people have tested positive for COVID-19.
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OnCuba Staff,
OnCuba editorial staff
