Cuba foresees a slow decline in COVID-19 infections

Havana, March 9 (RHC)-- Cuban scientists reported Tuesday that the trend of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island in the coming days is toward a slow decrease in the incidence of cases of the disease.

During a meeting with President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the experts presented a study on the situation of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus in the Latin American region, the world, and Cuba.

Its results ratified the validity of the measures implemented on the island to face the pandemic, especially the development of vaccines and the vaccination strategy.

The website of the Presidency reported that Raul Ginovart, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Havana, said that for some territories, the number of cases would continue to be high. Still, the models point out that confirmed cases could be close to 70 cases per day by the end of March and more sporadic deaths.

The Government's Temporary Working Group for the prevention and control of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus also assessed this reality.

Díaz-Canel said that although the trend is downward, it remains at an undesirable plateau -between 450 and 550 cases-so, it is necessary to improve the work of confronting the pandemic.

José Ángel Portal, head of the Ministry of Public Health, informed that at the end of last month, the intensity of transmission decreased by 67 percent concerning January, and in the first five days of March, it continues to decrease.

This March 11, it will be two years since Cuba detected the first cases of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus. At that time, it put into practice a plan of confrontation that prioritized active screening for early detection and cut the transmission.