The four new infections registered by the Cuban health authorities in the last 24 hours were detected in Havana, which, together with Mayabeque, is the other territory that does not pass on to the third phase announced by the Cuban government in its plan to return to normality.
In his morning press conference, Dr. Francisco Durán reaffirmed there were no deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that all the new infections correspond to Cubans; all are contacts of confirmed cases; three women, one man and three of them were asymptomatic.
|Información diaria|
Se confirmaron 4 nuevos casos de #COVID19, para un acumulado de 2 mil 444 en #Cuba55 positivos activos
54 con evolución clínica estable
1 paciente en estado grave
87 fallecidos
2 300 altas
2 evacuadoshttps://t.co/A7sqBUJoUo pic.twitter.com/Ekp2dk9Haa— Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) July 17, 2020
The municipalities where they were detected are: La Lisa, Boyeros, 10 de Octubre and Arroyo Naranjo. According to Durán, “all were related to outbreaks located on previous days.”
By age groups: three are between 20 and 50, and the remaining individual is over 60 years old; 15 patients were discharged, to bring the number of recovered to 2,300. Only one person was reported seriously ill, a 49-year-old woman residing in Cerro.
For yesterday’s diagnosis, 3,179 tests were performed; 2,131 of them in Havana. To date, Cuba has processed a total of 220,739 tests since the start of the pandemic on March 11.
At midnight on July 16, 213 people were hospitalized and 213 were under primary healthcare surveillance.
