4-year-old American boy receives medical discharge after overcoming coronavirus in Cuba

He Four-year-old American boy confirmed with coronavirus in Cuba, is already at his grandparents' house in Bayamo, in the Granma province, according to state media.

Ragnar Francisco Mosqueda Llanes' mother thanked the doctors who treated her little boy for 19 days. She did not test positive for COVID-19, but she was with him at all times, he points out The Demajagua.

"My daughter and I always tested negative, the boy was the only positive... He is perfectly fine, they treated us wonderfully well, I have no way to thank the doctors for what they did for him," said Mailen Llanos Ross, who confessed that he is still in shock at her son's discharge.

According to his statements, the little boy only had a fever for several days, including when he was given interferon, a Cuban medicine used to treat this disease, which continues without a definitive cure.

The case of this North American child was made public on March 30 by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The little boy arrived in Cuba on March 22 from the United States, a day later he started showing symptoms and was admitted to the Santiago de Cuba Hospital on the 27th, according to the report from that day.

Up to the most recent data from this state institution In Cuba there are 80 children under 16 years of age sick with COVID-19.

Also the first child diagnosed with coronavirus in Cuba, Dilan Fajardo Bárzaga, was discharged this Wednesday after almost a month (26 days) at the Joaquín Castillo Dauni Military Hospital, in Santiago de Cuba.

Dilan's mother appreciated the care her son received during the time he was hospitalized. Liliana Dianet Fajardo Bárzaga, who lives in Spain, believes that the little boy contracted COVID-19 at the airport because his family in that country did not present symptoms of this disease.

"When the child's test came back positive, the first thing I did was cry a lot, I was afraid. Almost immediately I knew that I also carried the virus," he told the official newspaper in early April. Granma.

Another of the minors discharged after overcoming the coronavirus is the girl Thalía, seven months old, who is already at his home in Aguada de Pasajeros in good health, noted the page Cienfuegos Love on Facebook.

The coronavirus cases in Cuba are 814, of which 151 people recovered and 24 lost their lives, according to the MINSAP.

Children generally do better than adults with COVID-19, reported last week Dr. Francisco Durán García, national director of Epidemiology at MINSAP.

"It is not that children are not susceptible to suffering from the disease... as (they) in the evolution of the disease generally do not move to a serious state and much less to a critical state," said Dr. Durán.

According to the World Health Organization, one in five children and young adults may be hospitalized due to coronavirus.