{"id":236548,"date":"2021-03-23T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=236548"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:56:19","slug":"cuba-surpasses-400-deaths-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-surpasses-400-deaths-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba surpasses 400 deaths from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/salud.msp.gob.cu\/parte-de-cierre-del-dia-22-de-marzo-a-las-12-de-la-noche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported this Tuesday<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that, after the processing of 18,162 samples in 23 laboratories, the balance of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SARS-CoV-2 virus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Island during the last 24 hours was 774 infections and four deaths, with which the death toll now stands at 401.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deceased are four men, three from Havana and one from Pinar del R\u00edo. Their ages ranged from 53 to 85 years old. With them, the lethality rate is 0.59%, below that of the world (2.20%) and the Americas region (2.39%), although high for the aspirations of the Cuban health system, according to the national director of Epidemiology of the MINSAP, Dr. Francisco Dur\u00e1n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In March alone, the coronavirus pandemic has left 77 deaths in Cuba and 17 660 infections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MINSAPCuba\/status\/1374361563998601219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1374361563998601219%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-sobrepasa-las-400-muertes-por-coronavirus%2F<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the cases diagnosed on Monday are cases of autochthonous transmission, 766. In eight individuals the source of the infection was located abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana reported the highest number of infections, with 404 cases, followed by Granma (102) and Santiago de Cuba (73). On the contrary, the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud (two), Las Tunas (seven) and Cienfuegos (five) accounted for the lowest figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding incidence rates, Havana, Pinar del R\u00edo and Granma continue to lead the statistics, while 12 municipalities, 11 from Havana and one from Mayabeque, concentrated 43.4% of the transmission in the last 15 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until midnight, there were 20,903 hospitalized patients, 3,361 active cases and 65 in intensive care, 28 in critical condition and 37 in serious condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Dur\u00e1n stressed that one of the patients in critical condition is an eight-year-old girl, a moment of his daily talk on television that he used to emphasize the danger that the disease represents for the most vulnerable groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday 109 people under the age of 20 were diagnosed with the disease; of which 102 were of pediatric ages and, among these, eight infants. Yesterday\u2019s number of people over 60, 140, was also high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this Monday, March 22, the MINSAP reported 793 discharges.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in March alone, COVID-19 has caused 77 deaths and 17,660 infections on the island. 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