This Thursday, four new positive cases to the SARS-CoV-2 were reported in the province, for which the Health authorities reinforced the epidemic control and surveillance measures in two districts of the Las Tunas capital. The incidence rate of the disease in the territory for the last 15 days thus rose to 1.31 per 100 thousand inhabitants.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Of those detected now, two are women, 21 and 22 years old; around both, 13 and 34 contacts are kept under surveillance, respectively. Of the male patients, one is 39 years old and the other 13; 39 and 34 contacts are monitored, in that order.

Dr. Diego Álvarez Dopazo, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, explained that they are all contacts of the 42-year-old citizen notified as positive on August 21, and also reside in the Health area of the Gustavo Aldereguía polyclinic. As their detection was the result of the family focus control, they were all in isolation centers. So far, they remain asymptomatic and with good evolution, he specified.

The specialist pointed out that as a result of this, in several blocks of two districts of this city, the inquiry of homes will continue to be deepened, as well as health surveillance in the state institutions and premises of the self-employed workers in the area.

Likewise, Dr. Gregory Antonio Pérez Héctor, Deputy Provincial Director of Health, detailed that, so far, a total of 43 real-time PCRs have been carried out around this focus. In the coming dates, he said, other measures will be added, such as cleaning the streets and sidewalks of that urban space with a 0.5 percent chlorine solution.

Although Las Tunas is in phase 3 of the post-COVID-19 recovery, so far this month nine autochthonous cases have already been diagnosed. That figure makes August the second-worst month in this province, only surpassed by April. “The Balcony of eastern Cuba” is consistent with the national trend regarding the age groups of those infected, because all of them are under 60 years.