{"id":226122,"date":"2020-08-16T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=226122"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:13:03","slug":"havana-a-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/havana-a-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana, a setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than what a meringue lasts at the door of a school (Cuban popular saying). That was in Miguel’s opinion the time that Havana lasted in the first phase of the post-COVID-19 de-escalation. His opinion seems exaggerated if you look at it literally, but it is not at all if you look at it from the prism of popular wisdom. “We could see it coming” explains this retired person from Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n

For just over a month, the Cuban capital remained on the first step of the return-to-normal ladder and, contrary to what happened in the rest of the Island, it did not manage to continue moving forward. Just a few days after entering the recovery stage, the capital authorities had to open two local transmissions detected events in the municipalities of Cerro and Diez de Octubre, and since then, the outbreaks have increased. And although the main Cuban city did not report autochthonous cases for two days in a row and met the health indicators for a short time to move on to the second phase, the truth is that it could never completely get off the tightrope<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the cases reported<\/a> at the end of this Friday, the main Cuban city has registered 1,890 positive cases, 57.4% of the 3,292 in the entire country since the pandemic began. Only in the last week, this figure has grown to 295 infected people in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, the capital has an incidence rate above 86 per 100,000 inhabitants, and maintains seven transmission events open, in the municipalities of Havana del Este (2), La Lisa (2), Playa (1), Plaza (1) and Marianao (1) \u2013 this Thursday an eighth positive case was detected in Tarar\u00e1 \u2013, as well as a hundred outbreaks spread throughout its geography. The spread of infections, the high number of asymptomatic patients, and the presence of people whose source of infection has not been specified keep the alarms on for the health personnel and the Havana government.<\/span><\/p>\n

What went wrong in Havana? The weight of the capital and Cuba\u2019s new normal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n