Havana, April 17 (ACN) Cuba ends this week with a drop in its numbers related to the COVID-19 epidemic, as predicted in their forecasts by the experts and scientists who advise the island’s government in the confrontation with this disease had.
With the exception of the Pinar del Río province, in the other areas of the country the incidence rate of positive cases has decreased in the last 14 days, according to Health Minister José Angel Portal Miranda.
Reporting on the nation’s epidemiological situation to the Government Working Group – headed by the First Secretary of the Party Central Committee and the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez — The minister added that in terms of the incidence of the disease, only three provinces (Mayabeque, Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey) remain above 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In general, Cuba continued to lower this indicator, which today stands at 67.7. “Last Thursday, at the previous check-up here, it was 73.9,” Portal Miranda said.
402 new cases were confirmed this Saturday, 16.1% fewer than the previous day. However, one person died in province.
Regarding the lethality in Cuba due to COVID-19, it was noted that the indicator remains at 0.15%, with 197 deaths so far this year. As of March 2020, 8,520 people have died in the country at a 0.77% mortality rate throughout the pandemic, a number lower than in the world and the nearby region of Americas.
On these issues, the Secretary of Public Health pointed out that almost all patients with COVID-19 admitted to the ICU and reported as serious or critical are in this precarious state of health because of their comorbidities and not because of the disease new coronavirus.
If we keep these indicators, commented the President of the Republic, we can end this month better than March in terms of the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19. In mid-April, he calculated, we are assuming 8,300 cases; if we continue like this, it would be around 16,000 at the end of the month, compared to 20,800 in the previous month.
Díaz-Canel asked about the new strains that are in circulation, about which Portal Miranda specified: “In the most recent sequencing performed, the BA2 subvariant predominates over the Ómicron variant, which is considered more transmissible, but no other has behavior in the clinic to the BA1 variant in circulation. So far we have not identified any other variant in the country.”
Cases below 300 are expected to be reported in Cuba this Sunday, further confirming the downward trend.
(Taken from the website of the Presidency of the Republic of Cuba)