Reviving the nation, controlling the epidemic
During yesterday’s meeting of the COVID-19 task force, led by President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, Minister of Public Health José Angel Portal Miranda reported that 94% of patients with SARS-COV-2 in Cuba have recovered and, as of Tuesday, only one was in serious condition, with the other 67 hospitalized patients responding positively to treatment.
Cuba reports six new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, July 15, 2020-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were six new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,438 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Wednesday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Tuesday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. A total of 87 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
Cuba reports four new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, July 14, 2020-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were four new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,432 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Tuesday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Monday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. A total of 87 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
Cuba contains the pandemic, but can't be overconfident
Havana, July 14, 2020-- As the world dawned Monday with 222,967 new people infected with COVID-19, two new cases were reported in Cuba, one of them with a source of infection abroad. These figures, although they do not constitute a reason for confidence in the current scenario, speak of how much work is still being done on the island to contain the spread of the disease, which has its current epicenter in the region of the Americas.