In his daily update on the situation of the pandemic on the Caribbean island, the national director of Epidemiology of the aforementioned portfolio, Francisco Durán also specified that 3,330 patients are admitted for clinical epidemiological surveillance.
He pointed out that another 6,742 people are monitored in their homes, from the Primary Health Care.
The expert noted that the number of patients recovered from Covid-19 disease in Cuba rose to 575, after 50 new medical discharges were reported.
Durán said that for Covid-19, 1,857 samples were studied, resulting in 48 positive samples.
Now the Caribbean country accumulates 43,508 samples made and 1,347 positive.
Of the 48 diagnosed cases, 24 were women and the same number were men, said Durán, who mourned the death of two people the day before for a total of 58.
The most affected age groups were: younger than 40 years with 22 cases, followed by the group from 40 to 60 years with 14, and 28 of the positive records were asymptomatic.
Until April 27, said Durán, 183 countries are reported with the presence of the disease with two million 916 thousand 507 confirmed cases and 205 thousand 923 deaths.
In the Americas region, he added, there are one million 182 thousand 433 confirmed cases, 40.5 percent of the total reported cases in the world, with 65 thousand 752 deaths. ft / joe
