Madrid Spain.- All the country’s provinces, 41 municipalities, and 58 health areas currently present dengue transmission, the Cuban Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, said Tuesday at the meeting of the temporary work group for prevention and control. of the illness.
Until this Saturday, September 3, the incidence rate of suspected dengue cases increased in relation to the previous week, said Portal Miranda.
In that period, Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camagüey, Mayabeque, Artemisa, Sancti Spíritus and Granma grew in the incidence rate, he specified.
According to the headline, quoted by Cubadebatethe territories with rates higher than the national one, and therefore with higher risks, are –in descending order of figures– the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Guantánamo, the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, Camagüey, Las Tunas and killings.
During the meeting, the Cuban authorities considered the dengue epidemic as one of the main ills that the Island is going through.
“Actually, today the main dangers are concentrated in dengue,” said Prime Minister Manuel Marrero.
To combat the disease it is necessary to unite “all forces, resources, priorities,” he added.
For his part, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel referred to the shortcomings that threaten to stop contagion, among which he mentioned the lack of fuel.
Díaz-Canel pointed out that “it is necessary to make an effort, not to neglect first-order tasks such as collecting garbage, such as fumigating or complying with established measures,” he cited Cubadebate.
This week it emerged that more than a thousand and a half people are under surveillance in Guantanamo on suspicion of being infected.
Recently numerous users on social networks lamented the deathdue to dengue, by Matanzas doctors Yeliezer González (gynecologist) and Liana Delgado (epidemiologist).
At the beginning of July of this year, José Ángel Portal Miranda acknowledged that the Island was going through a “complex” epidemiological scenario; as well as he specified that the record of reproduction points of the dengue mosquito of the last 15 years had been broken.
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