{"id":216332,"date":"2020-03-28T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=216332"},"modified":"2020-03-28T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:11:49","slug":"cuba-first-case-of-local-coronavirus-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-first-case-of-local-coronavirus-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: first case of local coronavirus transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When updating the situation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus<\/a> in Cuba this Friday, Minister of Public Health Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Portal Miranda reported \u201cthe first local transmission case on the island, specifically in the municipality of C\u00e1rdenas, Matanzas province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a report released on Cuban television, the fact is related to one of the cases diagnosed on March 21: that of an entertainer from a Varadero hotel. His source of contagion, it was said, was a group of Italian tourists.<\/p>\n<p>From this patient, 53 contacts were identified, which are isolated and under epidemiological surveillance. In recent days, four family members and a friend were positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the actions to confront this scenario have also been contemplated in the plan to confront and control the new coronavirus, which the island\u2019s government has been executing and updating for weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ds4didjGU9\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/coronavirus-in-cuba-13-new-cases-this-thursday-a-total-of-80\/\">Coronavirus in Cuba: 13 new cases this Thursday, a total of 80<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Coronavirus in Cuba: 13 new cases this Thursday, a total of 80&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/coronavirus-in-cuba-13-new-cases-this-thursday-a-total-of-80\/embed\/#?secret=QKD7mu5DS0#?secret=Ds4didjGU9\" data-secret=\"Ds4didjGU9\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Portal Miranda insisted on the importance of people incorporating the idea of \u200b\u200breporting any symptoms and immediately isolating themselves from family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Until this Thursday, Cuba had reported 80 confirmed cases of COVID-19, while keeping more than a thousand people hospitalized suspected of having the disease or contact with those infected with respiratory diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When updating the situation of the coronavirus in Cuba this Friday, Minister of Public Health Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Portal Miranda reported \u201cthe first local transmission case on the island, specifically in the municipality of C\u00e1rdenas, Matanzas province.\u201d According to a report released on Cuban television, the fact is related to one of the cases diagnosed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":216333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13902],"tags":[29532,8863],"ppma_author":[33546,8689],"class_list":["post-216332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","tag-coronavirus-in-cuba","tag-cuban-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cuba: first case of local coronavirus transmission | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is related to one of the cases diagnosed last March 21: that of an entertainer from a Varadero hotel. 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