The Cuban Ministry of Public Health registered this Saturday the first death from complications of covid-19 so far this week, in addition to confirming 77 new cases.
The Island adds 964,035 infections and 8,314 deaths since the first positive was identified, in March of last year. According to the daily epidemiological report of the Ministry, the current active cases amount to 344, of which 10 are serious and 4 are critical.
Holguín province continues to report the highest number of patients in the country and this Saturday notified 12 new positives to SARS-CoV-2.
According to the daily epidemiological report of the Ministry, the current active cases amount to 344, of which 10 are serious and 4 are critical.
Some 9.4 million people, out of a population of 11.2 million, have so far completed the Cuban vaccine schedule against COVID-19, according to authorities. Cuba is not part of the WHO Covax mechanism for low- and middle-income nations to access the formulas, nor did it buy them in the international market.
Given the arrival of travelers scheduled for the end of the year, the authorities of Havana decided this Friday that anyone with symptoms will be interned in an isolation center, where an antigen test will be performed. Only if it is negative, it will be discharged.
Direct contacts will also be isolated for 14 days, they will be in their homes, and two antigen tests will be applied, the second of them on the fifth day of the first. If during this quarantine any contact appears symptomatic, they will be admitted to a care center “immediately”.
Regarding travelers diagnosed with omicron variant, who arrived from Kenya on December 13, reported that they are isolated and that a “focus control” was carried out in the rental house in Centro Habana where they were staying. The people with whom they had contact, Olivera said, tested negative for the first PCR that was applied to them.
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