The numbers of contagions of covid-19 in Cuba are maintained officially under control and this Wednesday 80 cases and one deceased are added, in line with the data of the last weeks. However, the booster doses scheduled for January are being advanced in some municipalities of Havana and today it begins to be supplied in Playa, where 96,000 people injected the first full schedule six months ago.
In other municipalities in the central west of the capital, progress will also be made in the process ahead of schedule, while some from the south are already finishing the reinforcement, with Cotorro at the head, with 94.4% of the vaccinable universe.
According to Nilda Roca Menéndez, deputy director general of the Provincial Directorate of Health of Havana, the decision to advance the new guideline in a few days is motivated by the increase in mobility on Christmas dates, the growth of tourism and the probable arrival of omicron, much more contagious than previous covid variants.
The authorities revealed that the application of Soberana Plus in convalescent minors is also in progress, as well as that of adults who became ill two or more months ago
The authorities revealed that the application of Soberana Plus in convalescent minors is also ongoing, as well as that of adults who became ill two or more months ago. 97.2% of the vaccinable people have already done so, and 91.1% have completed the initial regimen of 15 days after the three doses.
Cuba is about to reach one million infections officially counted since March 2020. With the additions of this Wednesday, 964,317 are accumulated, of which 355 are active, eight of them serious and five critical.
The balance of total deceased reaches 8,317, although the figure is yet to be updated, if the words of Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health are taken into account, who last October hinted in an appearance that, when If the situation would have improved, it would be possible to start making an adequate analysis and balance of what happened, including determining the number of deaths.
Cuba seems to date oblivious to the vertiginous spread of the omicron variant, which in the US it is already causing alarm and in Europe it is leaving unseen figures not even in 2020. Vaccines and the fact that this variant is more contagious (especially affecting the upper respiratory tract) are causing fewer hospitalizations in these countries that are ahead of Cuba in their waves of covid-19.
However, the high volume of consultations is saturating primary care systems and testing, leading many countries to revert to restrictions that are in some cases severe, as in the Netherlands, where it has returned to confinement.
In Cuba, with a weakened hospital system, the authorities have already called for extreme precautions again since, as is being seen in the rest of the world, vaccines prevent serious cases but they are not being able to stop infections.
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