
{"id":236478,"date":"2021-03-21T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=236478"},"modified":"2021-03-21T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:56:40","slug":"cuba-reports-796-new-covid-19-patients-at-weeks-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-reports-796-new-covid-19-patients-at-weeks-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba reports 796 new COVID-19 patients at week\u2019s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba again reported this Sunday a high number of new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COVID-19<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> positive cases, with 796 in the last day, according to the official report of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this way, there are already 16,168 confirmed cases in the first 20 days of March, and 66,758 since the arrival of the pandemic on the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, in the last 24 hours, there were 796 medical discharges and two deaths, two men aged 69 and 71, both from Havana. In this way, 62,860 patients have already recovered and the death toll now stands at 394.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Francisco Dur\u00e1n, national director of Epidemiology of the MINSAP, reported this Sunday that in the country there are 21,658 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, of which there are 3,843 suspects, 14,367 under surveillance and 3,448 confirmed active cases. Of the latter, 3,380 have a stable clinical evolution, while 68 patients are in intensive care: 39 in serious condition and 29 in critical condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Se confirmaron 796 nuevos casos de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>, para un acumulado de 66 mil 758<\/p>\n<p>3448 casos activos <br \/>3380 evoluci\u00f3n cl\u00ednica estable <br \/>29 pacientes en estado cr\u00edtico<br \/>39 pacientes en estado grave<br \/>394 fallecidos <br \/>62860 pacientes recuperados <br \/>2 evacuados<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TiNVO7M5Eg\">https:\/\/t.co\/TiNVO7M5Eg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w2pYNJMqaD\">pic.twitter.com\/w2pYNJMqaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ministerio de Salud P\u00fablica de Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MINSAPCuba\/status\/1373639625500209153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the 796 new cases, they were detected thanks to 18,690 processed PCR tests. Of this total, 790 were autochthonous and only six imported, from Spain, Venezuela and Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana maintains a high incidence of positive cases, with 462 in the last day, while Santiago de Cuba (72), Pinar del R\u00edo (62) and Sancti Sp\u00edritus (42), were the other provinces with the highest statistics of confirmed cases at the close of this Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his usual press conference Dr. Dur\u00e1n said that of the new patients, 766 are contacts of confirmed cases; 415 are men and 381 are women, while 412 were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By age group, the 121 over 60 years of age stand out, a worrisome risk group, as well as the 113 under 20 years of age, 103 of them in pediatric ages, with nine infants included.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this regard, Dr. Dur\u00e1n pointed out that 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