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The event of local transmission of coronavirus that keeps 23 blocks of Puentes Grandes, in Havana, isolated has increased to 14 positive cases for COVID-19 since the beginning of August, when six young people were infected with the virus after going to the bar Q’Bolá from Beach.
According to the Plaza de la Revolución Municipal Defense Council, to date there are 14 confirmed infections and more than 200 contacts under investigation, with an age range of between 20 and 40 years, the newspaper reported Havana Tribune. The Havana Channel also echoed the news on Facebook.
However, the event declared on August 12 encompasses a larger population – more than 3,000 people in 23 blocks – of which 1,066 are in eight blocks in social isolation and under strict surveillance, authorities said.
“The only thing that can stop this event from expanding, opening up to other places, is isolation, stopping the movement of the population,” emphasized the president of the Provincial Defense Council Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar.
The official advised that to cut transmission, the selected apples will remain in isolation with strict surveillance and a daily investigation will be carried out on the entire population involved, especially in vulnerable groups, through rapid tests and PCR examinations.
The inhabitants of those blocks must also use the nasobuco both outside and inside the house, he said.
He also affirmed that what happened in the Q’Bolá bar has shown that young people also get sick and that “in times of coronavirus, bars, discos and shows in closed places cannot be part of our lives.”
The areas affected by the aforementioned transmission event include the Polyclinic Big Bridges, the 26 and 51 store and the Pedro Soto company, as well as the territorial gas point, the butcher shop and the winery, he detailed Tribune of Havana.
In the population comprised in that quadrant of the country’s capital there are infants, pregnant women and a high number of people over 60 years of age and the elderly who live alone, according to the media.
So far only people who have tested negative for the PCR can attend their work centers, but the rest have to comply with the quarantine, the official stressed.
Last Friday, the authorities of Plaza de la Revolución ordered the closure of shopping centers in Puentes Grandes to avoid the concentration of customers, the “regulation of traffic in several streets, reinforcing the sale of food and services through tents and allow the work of staff essential where necessary “, with a view to curbing contagion.
The Cuban capital has eight coronavirus outbreaks active so far: three in East Havana, two in La Lisa, one in Playa and Marianao, respectively, and the one in Plaza de la Revolución.
This Sunday the Ministry of Public Health confirmed 24 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest number this week, in which the numbers of infections soared, especially in Havana, the territory with the greatest impact of the pandemic.
Government representatives in health matters stressed that the new cases were detected through 3,646 diagnostic tests carried out in the last 24 hours.
Of them, 22 are residents in ten municipalities of the Cuban capital, where the highest infection figures of these days have been concentrated, with a peak of 72 last Monday.
Havana regressed last week to the epidemic phase -Limited indigenous transmission- after accumulating more than 200 cases of COVID-19 in the last 15 days.
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