Cuba is currently among the ten countries with the most citizens immunized against the SARS-Cov-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19informed this Wednesday the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).
Dr. José Ángel Portal, head of that portfolio, explained that as part of the vaccination strategy, by the end of 2022, 97% of the population had been immunized, according to a note from the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
As part of the Cuban strategy of #vaccination against #covid19At the end of 2022, 90.7% of the Cuban population had been immunized and 94.8% of the pediatric population, which places us among the 10 countries with coverage of more than 90%, stated Dr. Portal Miranda. pic.twitter.com/I9RoBFyf83
— CIGBCuba (@CIGBCuba) May 10, 2023
94.8 of the pediatric population had also received this protection, which places the island among the ten countries with coverage of more than 90% of its inhabitants, adds the publication.
The media specifies that to date, 10 million 732 thousand two people had received at least one dose of the Cuban anti-covid-19 vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.
Of that total, 9,454,290 have coverage for a second dose, while the third had been supplied to 9,152,060 Cubans.
In this way, 10 million 13 thousand 599 people have the complete vaccination schedule against the disease, which represents 90.7% of the Cuban population, highlights PL.
Data published by the Minsap website indicate that eight million 725 thousand 52 citizens also have reinforcement doses.
Cuba has managed to successfully control the impact on the national territory of the COVID-19 pandemic. The heavy week was no longer considered a global health emergency on the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO).
However, Cuban experts alerted this Tuesday about a slight increase in cases in the country from the analysis of forecast models.
Dr. Raúl Guinovart, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing at the University of Havana, reported that the cumulative incidence in the country is two cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 15 days, with a tendency to increase.
He added that the provinces of Holguín, Granma and Las Tunas raised this indicator in the last week, and form an area where the highest incidence is concentrated, although overall the epidemiological situation of the country is very similar to that of the beginning of 2023.
According to the most recent part Minsap newspaper, until midnight this Tuesday, 35 of the 442 samples analyzed during the day had tested positive for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19.
35 cases of #COVID19for a cumulative of 1,113,542 positives.
➡️115 active cases
➡️0 critics
➡️0 serious
➡️ 1 104 838 recovered
➡️8 530 deaths
➡️2 evacuees
? https://t.co/2Q8FqBf8cA pic.twitter.com/v2K2LgjDse— Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (@MINSAPCuba) May 10, 2023
The hospitalization of 218 patients was also reported, 103 of them suspected of having contracted the disease, although none of them receive care in intensive care units.
For several times Cuba has not reported deaths related to COVID-19, which has caused the death of 8,530 people since the start of the pandemic.
