With 1,429 new positive cases for covid-19 reported this Thursday, Cuba exceeded a thousand infections registered in one day, a figure that was not reported by the Ministry of Public Health since last October 25 when he reported 1,210 patients.
Given the increase in cases, this Thursday there were 462 more than yesterday, the authorities, without giving many details, have outlined what would be a new protocol for the autochthonous infected that implies the voluntary isolation of the sick at home.
“The protocols establish that all those who are vaccinated, the symptoms are generally almost none and the home admission system must be strengthened”, said this Tuesday Prime Minister Manuel Marrero in a meeting where the behavior of the pandemic was analyzed. “We cannot count on the schools, the universities, the tourist facilities that we used to isolate at other times.”
“We must appeal for a responsible isolation in the homes and that each one knows how to take care of himself in order to take care of his family and others,” added Marreño, who also insisted on maintaining other measures such as the use of a mask and avoiding crowds of people, but yes: “keeping the economy active” is a priority.
The provinces that reported the most cases this Thursday, according to health authorities, are Pinar del Río (251), Matanzas (166) and Camagüey (163). However, in others such as Havana, which has remained in the last week registering less than 100 daily, in health centers an increase is already perceived.
“We cannot count on schools, on universities, on the tourist facilities that at other times we use for isolation”
“La Covadonga (Salvador Allende hospital in Havana) is already full with covid patients and they left that hospital only for patients with the disease,” a medical source from the capital told 14ymedio.
Until December 31, the suspects were given an antigen test and were admitted, but given the increase in patients, says the same source, “isolation centers will not be set up as in previous months and the authorities have opted for admission In the home”.
Faced with this new government policy, the health worker warned that “they are not doing PCR and the antigen tests are limited, they are only for pregnant women and children under 2 years of age. The established thing is to do tests through biosensors and in this case the Results take three or four days and sometimes it doesn’t even come to you. “
The increase in daily and active cases responds to the presence of the omicron variant in Cuba, where experts speak of the beginning of “a new wave of infections” with the increase in the incidence of the disease, but not of fatality.
However, the governor Miguel Díaz-Canel, during the meeting last Tuesday, emphasized that it will not be acted upon as in months past. “Now we must give importance to the home entry, but it has to be an adequate, precise, deep, efficient home entry.”
Cuba currently has 3,803 confirmed assets. Since the pandemic began, 970,567 patients with the disease have been diagnosed and 8,325 people have died, one of them in the last day.
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