The Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported that this province maintains a single positive case for COVID-19, since the Italian citizen previously referred to by the local media was registered by the province of Holguín, taking into account that he has been treated there since the very moment that symptoms started.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Dr. Viviana Gutiérrez Rodríguez, provincial director of Health, told 26Digital that this patient of Italian nationality was a direct contact of the resident in the municipality of Jesús Menéndez, diagnosed in previous days, and whose sample was taken at the Los Caciques isolation center in Las Tunas. "Once confirmed, she was moved to Holguín, but she belongs to our province.

The last information offered by health authorities in the locality, 118 suspects of the disease are today in isolation centers and 13 contacts of possible infected people also remain isolated on the Lenin campus of the University of Las Tunas.

Gregory Pérez Héctor, deputy director of Medical Assistance here, clarified on local Radio that people with other conditions that could generate a complication or aggravation of the symptoms of COVID-19 are attending the Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital.

Today a total of 847 asymptomatic travelers from countries such as the United States, Argentina, Haiti and Spain are under surveillance. Of these, 71 are in Isolation centers (Cerro de Caisimú and former Polytechnic of Health of the University of Medical Sciences) and 776 remain controlled in their communities.

Today, seven samples go to the Santiago de Cuba laboratory for a total of 113 analyzed to date.