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Second SARS-CoV-2 positive case in Las Tunas is reported

The Ministry of Public Health in its part corresponding to the close of March 29, 2020, reported among the new positive cases to the Covid-19 to a resident in the municipality of Majibacoa, who arrived on March 24 from Spain.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- According to local health authorities, the 48-year-old citizen arrived at 6 in the afternoon of that day at the Santiago de Cuba airport and was transferred in the buses enabled for these travelers to the Cerro de Caisimú isolation center, in Las Tunas, according to the protocols established in these cases.

At approximately three in the morning, on the 25th, he was located with other flight companions in their respective cabins. During that same day, he manifested to the doctor on duty feeling discomfort in his throat and coryza. On the 26th, he was admitted to the "El Cocal" isolation center, in the province of Holguín. The sample for the nasopharyngeal exudates was taken on the 28th, and on the 29th the positive result was confirmed.

COVID-19 in Las Tunas

Of the 18 people with whom he had contact on the flight and upon arrival in Cuban territory, six are isolated in this province, specifically at the Los Caciques isolation center.

To this day, 108 suspects of suffering from COVID-19 remain under surveillance at local isolation centers in the Balcony of Eastern Cuba. Of these, 26 are in Los Cocos; 27, in Los Caciques; 45, in Aguada de Vázquez; four, in Colombia; five, at the Ernesto Guevara hospital; and one at the Mártires de Las Tunas pediatric hospital. In addition, three people who had contact with possible patients are watched over at the Lenin campus of the local University.

Likewise, the surveillance of 747 inhabitants who arrived from other nations continues; 671 are controlled by the primary care of the municipalities and another 76 are in centers for travelers (Cerro de Caisimú and the former Health Polytechnic Institute).

Health authorities insist on the need to stay home and go out only as necessary. It is up to all of us to avoid a massive increase in the spread of COVID-19, a disease that mourns the world.