The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expressed today the need to control the upward trend in Covid-19 cases in the country in recent days.
According to national television, the president called for institutional and individual responsibility by leading, at the Palace of the Revolution (headquarters of the Executive), a meeting of the Government’s temporary working group to confront the SARS-CoV coronavirus. -2, causing that disease.
At the meeting, the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal, reported that the increase in Covid-19 cases mainly affects the provinces of Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila and Cienfuegos (center), Matanzas and Mayabeque (West), and Holguín, Las Tunas and Guantánamo (East).
Through videoconference, the report of the day last Friday was released, which revealed a growth of 4.6 percent in the incidence, with 613 positive cases, and reports of those infected with the virus in 108 of the 168 municipalities. Cubans.
Portal also pointed out that until March 10, more than 35 million doses of injectable anti-Covid-19 immunogens were applied on the island, for which 95.4 percent of the vaccinable population received the complete three-dose schedule. , and 74.1 has the reinforcement.
The meeting also evaluated the water distribution strategy in the face of the drought period and it was reported that the availability of medicinal oxygen in the health system is stable.
