HAVANA, March 27 (RHC) The Cuban Ministry of Health reported 822 new positive cases of Covid-19 this Sunday, out of a total of 13,078 samples taken for surveillance that day, there were 730 medical discharges and no patient died.
The country collects 13 million 396 thousand 892 conducted samples and 1 million 087 thousand 183 positives.
At the end of yesterday March 26, a total of 9,587 patients were enrolled, 5,000 695 suspects, 20 under surveillance and 3,872 confirmed active.
Of the total cases (822): 799 were contacts of confirmed cases; 8 with a foreign source of infection; 15 with no specified source of infection. Of the 822 cases diagnosed, 461 were female and 361 male.
5.7% (48) of the 822 positive cases were asymptomatic, bringing the total to 145,921, representing 13.4% of the cases confirmed to date.
The 822 diagnosed cases belong to the age groups: under 20 years (262), 20 to 39 years (186), 40 to 59 years (194), 60 and older (180).
Of the millions 087,183 patients diagnosed with the disease, 3,872 remain hospitalized, of whom 3,839 have stable clinical development. 33 confirmed patients are being treated in intensive care, of whom 6 are critically ill and 27 are seriously ill.
On the day there were 730 discharges, there were 1 million 074 thousand 743 recovered patients (98.9%), two were evacuated, 57 returned to their countries.
No deaths were reported in the last day. In Cuba there are 8,509 deaths from Covid-19, a case fatality rate of 0.78%. In the world 1.28% and 1.79% in America.
As of March 26, 191 countries and 42 territories are reported with cases of COVID-19 worldwide, increasing from the previous report with 59 million 410 to 480 million 194 thousand 112 confirmed (+ 1 million 428 thousand 301 thousand 399 active cases and 6 million 144 thousand 270 deaths (+ 8 thousand 554) for a lethality of 1.28% (=).
The Americas region reports 152 million 239 000 242 confirmed cases (+ 93 000 808), 31.7% of all reported cases worldwide, with 19 239 000 632 active cases and 2 723 000 492 deaths (+ 1 000 641) for one fatality of 1.79% (=). (Source: MINSAP)