Cuba maintains low COVID-19 trend

Havana, April 18 (RHC)-- Cuba's Ministry of Public Health reports that the Caribbean country currently maintains a downward trend of COVID-19 cases.  But, at the same time, it urged people not to be overly confident and comply with the established health measures.

This portfolio in its part issued the day before reported 292 people with the disease, 110 less than on Saturday. In all provinces, with the exception of Pinar del Río, the incidence rate of positive cases has decreased in the last 14 days. 

The head of the sector, José Angel Portal, said that in the last sequencing carried out, the BA2 subvariant of Omicron predominates, which is more transmissible, but it does not have a different clinical behavior than BA1. "So far we have no other variant identified in the country," the minister assured. 

Almost all patients with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care unions reported as serious or critical are in such delicate health conditions because of their comorbidities and not because of the new coronavirus, he pointed out. Regarding the lethality in Cuba due to SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, he commented that the indicator remains at 0.15 percent, with 197 deaths so far this year. 

From March 2020 to date, 8,520 people have died, for a lethality rate of 0.77 percent, a figure lower than that recorded in the world. 

In this context, the Ministry informed that so far 6,471,741 people have received the booster dose against Covid-19. It pointed out that nine million 932 thousand 203, 89.6 percent of the population, have already completed the vaccination schedule. 

To date, 10 million 646 thousand 976 citizens have received a dose from the national immunizers, 9 million 396 thousand 767 have already received the second vaccine, and 9 million 87 thousand 291 the third. The nation thus accumulates 35 million 603 thousand 457 doses of the Cuban Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala vaccines administered.