First day for Cuba without new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic started
Cuba woke up this Monday without new cases of daily coronavirus contagion for the first time since registering its three initial Covid-19 patients in mid-March, the Health Ministry reported.
A very favorable day, we do not have confirmed cases, we do not have serious cases, we do not have critical cases, announced the head of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), Francisco Durán, at the start of his usual virtual press conference to inform on the development of the pandemic on the island.
With a population of 11.2 million inhabitants, the Caribbean nation has accumulated to date a total of 2,446 infections, of which 2,319 have been discharged and 87 died.
His first cases of the new coronavirus - three Italian tourists - were reported on March 11.
Durán explained that on Sunday 2,914 samples were studied in the country's laboratories and that none of them was positive for covid-19.
He also highlighted that 38 confirmed cases receive medical attention in the island's hospitals and that all are progressing favorably.
However, he stressed that unfortunately we know that we can continue to have more cases as we continue to deepen the exams.
We expect to have more cases, and that no one thinks that the (diagnostic) tests will decrease, that the actions of restrictions will decrease, because we are really aware that asymptomatic people, infected in our country, with the possibility of transmission, he added.
The objective is to find them, isolate them, diagnose them, and that we really achieve stability at this figure of zero (cases) or few cases, he said.
Since the island registered the first cases in March, the Minsap's strategy has been to isolate patients who are infectious without symptoms, search for possible patients house-to-house and carry out tests to detect Covid-19 in all contacts in one confirmed case, with or without symptoms.
With a population of 11.2 million inhabitants, the Caribbean nation has accumulated to date a total of 2,446 infections, of which 2,319 have been discharged and 87 died.
His first cases of the new coronavirus - three Italian tourists - were reported on March 11.
Durán explained that on Sunday 2,914 samples were studied in the country's laboratories and that none of them was positive for covid-19.
He also highlighted that 38 confirmed cases receive medical attention in the island's hospitals and that all are progressing favorably.
However, he stressed that unfortunately we know that we can continue to have more cases as we continue to deepen the exams.
We expect to have more cases, and that no one thinks that the (diagnostic) tests will decrease, that the actions of restrictions will decrease, because we are really aware that asymptomatic people, infected in our country, with the possibility of transmission, he added.
The objective is to find them, isolate them, diagnose them, and that we really achieve stability at this figure of zero (cases) or few cases, he said.
Since the island registered the first cases in March, the Minsap's strategy has been to isolate patients who are infectious without symptoms, search for possible patients house-to-house and carry out tests to detect Covid-19 in all contacts in one confirmed case, with or without symptoms.