Although Cuba is showing a drop in the number of positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, we should not be too optimistic, Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, warned today.
In the usual Monday press conference on the behavior of the current pandemic, the specialist pointed out that the country is highly contagious, accompanied by a decrease in the number of severe, critical and deceased patients as a result of the characteristics of the variants of the virus circulating in which the severity of the clinical picture decreases.
However, we shouldn’t even confide in the full anti-COVID-19 vaccination schedule, he warned.
Undoubtedly, the action of the vaccines has helped to keep the disease under control, although the accompaniment of the population in the correct use of the nasobuco and compliance with the oriented measures is necessary, he said.
In the last week (ending April 9), 74,806 samples were analyzed in the country to study the disease and 4,290 were positive for coronavirus, down 1,074 from the previous week.
Autochthonous cases decrease for two consecutive weeks; The nation reported 4,250 cases (down 1,054 from the previous week).
The number of imports also fell; 40 cases from 14 countries were detected during the week, and a total of 45 cases were diagnosed in the month of April through April 9.
Regarding pediatric patients, Dr. Durán on the need to protect minors and warned of the consequences of the disease in these patients.
He said 1,341 cases were recorded in the last week (192 daily cases), down 198 cases compared to the previous week.
31 patients are in intensive care, nine of them in critical condition and 22 in serious condition.
Durán lamented the deaths of four people a week.
Regarding the Omicron variant, the expert said that 318 confirmed cases with this variant have accumulated in the country. Forty-eight cases were diagnosed during the week (45 Cubans and three foreigners).
To date and since March 2020, Cuba has accumulated one million 097 333 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2, 8 000 519 deaths from COVID-19 and one million 86 86 patients who have recovered, a figure that represents 99 percent of Cases equal infections.