MINSAP reports more than 100 Covid-19 infections in the last two days

The Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported this Friday that in the last two days more than 100 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the country.

Theinformation specifies that at the end of May 25 there were 155 confirmed active cases on the island, of which 45 were confirmed that day and 58 on the previous day, for a total of 103 cases in 48 hours.

On Thursday, 643 samples were analyzed forsurveillance, with 45 being positive, underlines the information.

Currently, 305 patients remain hospitalized and there are 150 suspects, the official report details. To date, the country has a historical total of 14,360,036 samples taken and 1,114,063 positive, he details.

Of the 45 cases confirmed in the last day – 21 men and 24 women – 20 were contacts of confirmed cases; 1 had a source of infection abroad, and 24 have no specified source of infection.

All cases presented symptoms.

By age group, 31 cases belong to those under 20 years of age, three were reported in people from 20 to 39 years of age, four from 40 to 59 years of age, and seven patients were over 60 years of age.

On May 9, Dr. Raúl Guinovart, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing at the University of Havana, predicted a slight increase in Covid-19 cases for the coming weeks.

In a meeting of the country's leadership with scientists and health experts, Guinovart pointed out that from May 1 to 7 the number of cases remained the same as the previous week, but that in the last week of April and the first week of May, The cumulative incidence in the country was two cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with a tendency to increase.

The Cuban government assures that no cases of the new coronavirus variant Ómicron xbb.1.16 (also called Arcturus) have been detected, which is already circulating in more than 30 countries, with a majority of cases in India.

At the beginning of the month, Dr. Francisco Durán García, director of Epidemiology at MINSAP, said that border surveillance is maintained to detect any suspicious case, while paying attention to the behavior of xbb.1.16 in the world.

Residence by province and municipalities of confirmed cases:

Artemis: 2 cases

• Caimito: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)

Havana: 2 cases

• Arroyo Naranjo: 1 (contact of confirmed case)

• Boyeros: 1 (contact of confirmed case)

Killings: 16 cases

• Cárdenas: 7 (without specified source of infection)

• Killings: 6 (without specified source of infection)

• Jovellanos: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• Parakeet: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• Los Arabos: 1 (without specified source of infection)

Villa Clara: 3 cases

• Placets: 1 (confirmed case contact)

• Camajuaní: 1 (contact of confirmed case)

• Caibarién: 1 (contact of confirmed case)

Ciego de Ávila: 1 case

• Ciro Redondo: 1 (contact of confirmed case)

Las Tunas: 8 cases

• Las Tunas: 4 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Amancio: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Jobabo: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Holguín: 7 cases

• Cacocum: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Rafael Freyre: 3 (1 imported and 2 contacts of confirmed cases)

• Báguanos: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• Count: 1 (without specified source of infection)

Santiago de Cuba: 6 cases

• Santiago de Cuba: 2 (without specified source of infection)

• San Luis: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• Palma Soriano: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• Songo La Maya: 1 (without specified source of infection)

• II Front: 1 (without specified source of infection)