The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported the death of one of those injured in the fire last August at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, although without offering details.
Also, in his usual part about COVID-19 On the island, the health entity reported the detection of six new cases and the granting of the same number of medical discharges, which leaves the number of active cases of the disease in the country at 25.
In your information about those injured in fire in Matanzaswith a cut-off time at 10 a.m. this Monday, the Minsap raised the number of deceased to 17, one more than those reported up to the previous day.
Updated information on the status of those injured in the accident at the Matanzas Supertanker Base.
Until⏰10:00 am on ? October 3:
▶️146 people injured
▶️17 deceased
▶️6 hospitalized
▶️123 medically discharged?https://t.co/d9Ms4nmhib pic.twitter.com/q92ZMtLRbk
— Cuban Ministry of Public Health (@MINSAPCuba) October 3, 2022
The updated report on the victims of the incident maintains the total number of injured at 146 and the patients who have been discharged at 123. As for those hospitalized, after the new death, six now remain, all male, three of them reported as serious and the other three as being in care.
The note does not specify data on the deceased this Sunday, but if the last two parts on the subject are compared, it can be inferred that it was a patient reported as critical, who was admitted to the Calixto García hospital in Havana.
Publications on social networks and in unofficial media indicate that he was named Omar Ravelo, 63, and report that he died as a result of cardiac arrest. They also point out that he was a native of Bauta, in the province of Artemisa, where this Monday he was honoredand that he was a driver of a tanker truck that was working in the area of the fire when he suffered severe burns that kept him hospitalized until his death.
Regarding the situation of COVID-19, the new cases were detected after the analysis of 1,222 samples, and four of them were contacts of confirmed cases and in two the source of infection could not be specified, according to the most recent part of the Minsap.
6 new cases were confirmed #COVID19for a cumulative of 1,111,206 positives.
25 active cases
25 stable clinical evolution
0 in critical condition
0 in serious condition
8,530 deaths
1,102,592 recovered
2 evacuees? https://t.co/gNCcpOTRh1 pic.twitter.com/0SLUDeXfi0
— Cuban Ministry of Public Health (@MINSAPCuba) October 3, 2022
Two of those infected are female and four are male, and none were asymptomatic. By age, the patients are distributed in equal figures (2), between those under 20 years of age, those between 20 and 39 years of age, and those over 60.
By provinces, only five provinces registered cases and only Ciego de Ávila, with three, had more than one infection.
In this way, a total of 71 patients remain hospitalized for the disease, of which 46 are suspected and 25 are confirmed active, none of whom are in critical or serious condition.
