Yesterday was another day without deaths from COVID-19 in Cuba. Contagion cases dropped to 10, as in March, when the pandemic began on the island. The number of hospitalized also decreased and now is 913.
“It’s not that we have solved, there is a better result, there is a greater recovery of patients,” said Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), at the morning briefing.
He said that among the newly infected there were more women than men (7 to 3) and that nine of them had contact with SARS-CoV-2 virus positive patients. He also highlighted that three of them are children.
60.0% of new infections were asymptomatic and the most affected age groups were those under 40 years of age, with six cases, and those over 60 years of age, with four.
Se confirmaron 10 nuevos casos de #COVID19, para un acumulado de 1840 en #Cuba.
▪334 positivos activos
▪325 con evolución clínica estable
▪3 pacientes en estado crítico
▪6 pacientes en estado grave
▪79 fallecidos
▪1425 altas
▪2 evacuadoshttps://t.co/KxXwnboIrV pic.twitter.com/n5hYcpeWCS— Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) May 15, 2020
Until midnight on May 14, when the health authorities collected this information, 3 patients were reported in critical condition and 6 in serious condition. On the same day, 42 people were discharged, for a total of 1,425 recovered.
To date, 2,947 people have been under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes and Cuba has processed 77,374 tests.
