• Cuba confirms the highest number of Covid-19 cases in pandemic • Havana Pays Special Attention to the Circulation of COVID-19 Delta strain • Cuban medical team returns home from South Africa • Bolivia plans to acquire Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine •
Cuba Confirms the Highest Number of COVID-19 Cases in Pandemic
Havana, Cuba.- Cuba confirmed on Sunday 2,698 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, which represents the highest number in one day during the entire pandemic since 2020.
For the third consecutive day, the country reported more than 2,000 cases and this shows the complex situation that the territory is experiencing, said the national chief of Epidemiology, Francisco Durán.
With this, 182,354 people have suffered from COVID-19 since March 11, 2020.
Durán detailed that the most complicated situation is in the autochthonous transmission. He also regretted the death of 10 people, bringing the number of deaths to 1,241.
June has become the most complex month of the pandemic, since in 26 days 39,031 patients with COVID-19 and 276 deaths were reported, for an average of 1,501 cases per day and 11 deaths.
Referring to the progress of the immunization process with the country's vaccine candidates, Soberana 02 and Abdala, the expert informed that five million 492,355 doses of these products had been administered.
The data include the different modalities applied, such as clinical trials, intervention studies, and health interventions.
Havana Pays Special Attention to the Circulation of COVID-19 Delta Strain
The top Public Health authorities in the Cuban capital have called for increased epidemiological surveillance given the spread in the territory of the Delta strain of COVID-19, 64 times more contagious than the Alpha strain.
During the daily
meeting of the Temporary Working Group for the fight against the pandemic in Havana, Dr. Emilio Delgado Iznaga explained that the new strain already prevails in several countries. Those infected with it are twice as likely to be hospitalized.
The recommendations made by the specialist in this context included paying special attention to focus on active local transmission events, as well as maintaining the quality of the sanitary intervention in the city.
Based on this situation, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, the Communist Party leader in the capital, and Governor Reinaldo García Zapata, urged for the reinforcement of the demand for compliance with the hygienic-sanitary measures to timely admit all the suspects for PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests.
Cuban Medical Team Returns Home from South Africa
The third group of the Henry Reeve International Contingent brigade that provided medical assistance against COVID-19 in South Africa has reportedly returned to Cuba.
Among its 31 members are specialists in General Comprehensive Medicine, graduates in Electromedicine, Information Management, and Hygiene and Epidemiology are among its 31 members, who contributed to the fight against the disease in the provinces of Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, and Gauteng, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported on Sunday.
Yoel Antonio Milanés, head of this group, said that they arrived in South Africa last April when the pandemic was at its peak, and remained on the front line with the sick, in the poorest and most difficult areas.
These Cuban professionals attended to more than 50,000 patients, around 25,000 of them infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
They also contributed with surgeries, deliveries, and cesarean sections; as well as in the repair and maintenance of various equipment, and in taking samples for PCR and contact screening of COVID-19 cases.
According to the Cuban Embassy, in the last 12 months, doctors of the Henry Reeve Brigade assisted 239,411 patients; performed 40,391 nursing procedures, and 1,215 surgeries.
Bolivia Plans to Acquire Cuban Abdala COVID-19 Vaccine
Paz.- The Bolivian Health and Sports Minister, Jeyson Auza, announced that the Government will negotiate the acquisition of the anti-Covid-19 immunizer Abdala, from Cuba, whose doses would be destined to the department of Potosí, according to news reports on Sunday.
In a rally in that southern region, Auza said that this Cuban vaccine has more than 92 percent effectiveness, while the governor of Potosi, Jhonny Mamani, also expressed his interest in buying this vaccine candidate produced in Cuba.
The departmental government requested the legal technical support of the Executive to acquire it as soon as possible because of the health situation and indicated that they will wait for the requirements of the World Health Organization.
