At the close of this Monday in the nation, 6,803 people with COVID-19 remained admitted. Photo: Revolution Studies.
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The average number of cases per day in Cuba at the end of last week was 1,156, 10.6% higher than what was recorded on the island at the end of April. The 1,155 new patients notified this Monday are confirming the possibility that May will break a sad record with more than 34,700 positives: in April the final number was set at 31,346.
Also deaths from COVID-19 have been on the rise, so far in May there have been 223 deaths, and in all of April there were 229. In the last six weeks an average of ten deaths per day has been maintained: this Monday, 13 were lamented.
In the midst of these very high figures – reported by the Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Mirada, at the meeting of the Government Working Group for the control of COVID-19 – Cuba is making steady progress in the Sanitary Intervention that began on May 10 with Cuban vaccine candidates in risk groups and territories.
As of the end of May 22, 774,212 people had been vaccinated throughout the country: of them 405,908 as part of the Health workers, BioCubaFarma and other risk groups; and 368 304 of the population of the municipalities of Regla, Guanabacoa, Habana del Este and San Miguel del Padrón, in the capital, and of the Isle of Youth.
The process, said Portal Miranda, continues according to expectations. The provinces of Havana, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, which began after the others, are progressing as we had foreseen. On the other hand, territories such as Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Las Tunas and Isla de la Juventud have already completed the first dose in their risk groups.
At the meeting of the Temporary Group, headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, The situation of ten provinces that failed to contain the disease was evaluated: Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Havana, Mayabeque, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Granma, Holguín and Santiago.
In the case of Pinar del Río – which reported 68 positives on Monday and a much higher number is expected for Tuesday – President Díaz-Canel indicated that he would more precisely evaluate the measures that have been taken there. They have to review the effectiveness of what they are doing, because in the last five weeks infections have not stopped growing, almost always above 50 per day. If they continue with the increase in assets, he said, they will not be able to continue isolating the case contacts.
That has to do, he pointed out, with the indiscipline that has been committed in the territory and has compromised all the work that has been done. Díaz-Canel was referring to a cockfight in the municipality of Sandino that caused a transmission event of great magnitude.
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party also spoke via videoconference with the authorities of Mayabeque, a territory that reported 86 positive cases this Monday, scattered in ten of its eleven municipalities, recorded 621 active patients and last week reported seven deaths due to the COVID-19.
Díaz-Canel warned that the province has become the second most complicated in the country – after Havana – even above Santiago, a territory also with high numbers of infections. In Mayabeque, the President commented, the ability to isolate contacts from confirmed cases has been lost due to the number of patients they are reporting daily. He recalled that this isolation has been precisely the key to success in containing the disease.
At the close of this Monday in the nation, 6,803 people with COVID-19 remained admitted. 1,223 new medical discharges had been granted and the number of recovered amounted to 126,459: 94.2% of the total infected. In the intensive care rooms there were 49 patients in critical condition and 91 classified as serious, numbers that have not shown a good face in recent weeks.
Cuba, like many nations in the world and particularly in Latin America, is experiencing a strong outbreak of the epidemic, in the midst of a vaccination process that does not stop and which, according to Public Health authorities, should reach 70% in August of its population.
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