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Doctor José Luis López González, Deputy Director of Epidemiology at the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Microbiology in Ciego de Ávila, assured that the cases of fever in the region show a “sustained decrease,” although he did not provide any figures in the midst of a health crisis due to arboviral diseases.
According to the official, although the central province "shows a trend toward a decrease" in fever cases, the most affected municipalities continue to have high incidence rates.
According to a report from the official newspaper Invasor, published on Thursday, the specialist spoke about three consecutive weeks of "gradual reduction" in reports of fever and in the reactivity of immunoglobulin M (IgM), as well as a decrease in the overall incidence rate, without providing statistics to support such a claim.
However, the province remains far from a stable situation, as in the year's total, Morón and Ciego de Ávila continue to be the municipalities with the greatest epidemiological complexity.
Currently, the territories that exceed the provincial average incidence are Morón, Ciego de Ávila, Venezuela, and Florencia.
In the most recent week, the main municipality reported the highest number of mosquito breeding sites, while the highest infestation rates were recorded in Morón, Majagua, Ciro Redondo, and Ciego de Ávila itself.
López stated that the anti-vector actions are ongoing and are adjusted according to the risk stratification.
These efforts, aimed at eliminating breeding sites, involve medical students and other state organizations in an attempt to curb the transmission of arboviruses.
But the official report avoids specifying key data, precisely when the public needs transparent information to understand the true magnitude of the problem.
In recent days, authorities in the province of Matanzas reported a downward trend in arboviral cases, including dengue, with a report of only 680 febrile patients in the last week.
According to provincial officials, the number is well below the peak of 5,240 cases recorded weeks ago.
Doctor Francisco Durán García, national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), confirmed this Friday that the country is facing an epidemic of chikungunya, with a wide spread of the virus throughout the national territory.
According to the official data presented, 31,513 people have been diagnosed with suspected chikungunya, a disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same vector as dengue.
The virus is currently circulating in 14 provinces, 99 municipalities, and 164 health areas, which, according to Durán, "constitutes a sustained epidemic behavior".
The official also reported that on the last day, 753 new suspected cases of chikungunya and 847 confirmed cases of dengue were reported, demonstrating the simultaneous occurrence of both diseases in the country.
Durán indicated that 5,713 patients are currently hospitalized with suspected chikungunya, of which 5,607 are at home and the remainder in healthcare institutions.
Additionally, 95 people are in intensive care units, 77 in serious condition and 18 in critical condition. Among the seriously ill patients, 63 are under 18 years old, and among the critical patients, 16 are children.
The director of Epidemiology at Minsap warned that the infestation rate of Aedes aegypti remains high, at 0.73, a figure described as "a high transmission risk," while the provinces with the worst indicators are Camagüey, Pinar del Río, Sancti Spíritus, and Villa Clara.
Doctor Durán clarified that no cases of Zika have been reported in the country, although he acknowledged that conditions exist for its emergence.
On Wednesday, the specialist dismissed the presence of the West Nile virus in the Cuban archipelago.
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