Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, in a press conference, at the end of yesterday, July 29, stated that, 8736(129+) new positive cases were confirmed for a total of 375 721.

To date, 2693 deaths by coronavirus (65 belong to the day) have been reported, and 43 161 (898- ) confirmed cases of which 42 788(99.1%) with a stable clinical evolution; a total of 9 569(belonging to the day) patients were discharged from hospitals for a total of 329 811(87.8%) medical or epidemiological discharges. There are 155 critical patients and 218 in critical status.

Of the amount of patients diagnosed, 1736(24+) belong to the capital, 1548(24+) all of them native. We regret 5 casualties by Coronavirus this Sunday.

Francisco Durán informed this Monday, the incidence rate per 100 thousands inhabitants increased to 865.5% (18 311).. For that reason he called the attention on the strict comply of the protection measures and social isolation because of the still high transmission which is spread in all its territories.

 The most affected municipalities in Habana were Centro Habana(224),La Lisa(187), Boyeros(173), Arroyo Naranjo(155),Playa(152),Marianao(140),Diez de Octubre(134),Habana del Este(130),Habana Vieja(81),Cerro y San Miguel del Padrón(74 each),Plaza de la Revolución(70), Guanabacoa(58)Cotorro(45) and Regla,39.

47 616 test were studied for Covid 19, with a result of 7812 positive samples whether with PCR or by antigen. The country accumulates 309 783 analyzed samples of which 349 055 were positive.

8642(98.9%) cases were contacts of confirmed cases for a total of 8736 confirmed ones; reaching a total of 365 126(97.3%). 61 of the cases (0.7%) have its source of infection abroad for a total of 10 296(2.7%) and 33(0.4%) of the cases have an unknown source of infection.

There were diagnosed 8675 native cases this Thursday and 61 were imported of which 4528(51.8%) female and 4208(48.2%) male cases.

This Thursday the amount of asymptomatic cases decreased to a 4.9 %( 433), for a total of 105 709 which represents 30.9% of the confirmed cases to date. According to this indicator, he pointed out that the trend to the decrease evidences the severity of the clinic chart presented by the new strains, since symptoms appear from the beginning of the disease.

89 867 patients remain hospitalized for clinical epidemiological surveillance, 42 924 suspected cases, 3782 under medical watch. It has been confirmed 43 161(11.5%) active cases of which 42 788 with a clinical stable evolution. An amount of 329 811(87.8%) have been discharged from hospitals.

Of the 8736confirmed cases, 1694 were under 20 years of age; 2565 between 20 and 39; 2824 between 40 and 59 and 1653, over 60.

The death rate for Covid 19 in Cuba, in July 21, 2021 is 0.72 % per million inhabitants which is lower than the 2.14% for the world and the 2.61 % for the Americas region.

Source: Digital Portal of the Government of La Habana/YG