(EFE).- Cuba exceeded one hundred daily cases of covid-19 this Saturday for the first time in more than two months, confirming 114 new infections.
The last time the Ministry of Public Health registered more than 100 new positives in one day was on May 14, when it reported 103 infected.
Then, the new infected by SARS-Cov-2 began to drop for several consecutive days and no deaths were reported either.
The total of PCR tests have also decreased, accounting for some 2,509 on the day, according to official statistics.
“At the close of yesterday, July 22, a total of 714 patients have been admitted, 290 suspected and 424 confirmed active,” the Ministry of Health reported this Saturday in its daily report on covid.
The health authorities warned ten days ago about a slight increase in cases due to the circulation in the country of the BA.5 subvariant of the omicron variant of the virus.
Havana and Matanzas lead the regions of the country with the most reported cases of covid-19, although they do not reach a hundred
They assure that they maintain “control” of the disease due to the high vaccination rates with their own anticovid-19 formulas that reach almost 98% of the population considered “vaccinable”.
Havana and Matanzas lead the regions of the country with the most reported cases, although they do not reach a hundred or the levels of last summer when they exceeded a thousand.
On the other hand, this Saturday the World Health Organization declared an international emergency, due to the current outbreak of monkeypox, after some 16,000 cases have already been declared in 75 countries, many of them in Europe, where the disease was not endemic Of the total, only five people with the disease have died.
The decision was announced at a press conference by the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, two days after an emergency committee with experts in this disease met to analyze the possible declaration, which will force national health networks to Increase your preventive measures.
This committee had chosen not to declare the emergency at a first meeting held in June (when there were 3,000 chaos), and on this occasion, according to Tedros, there was also no total consensus among the experts, but the director general has decided to declare the emergency in view of the high and growing number of cases in various regions around the planet. To date, Cuba has not registered any case of monkeypox.
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