Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, in a press conference, at the end of yesterday, September 10th, stated that, 8035 new positive cases were confirmed for a total of 737 168(8.6%).

To date, 6219 deaths by coronavirus (79 belong to the day) have been reported, and 38 433 active cases of which 38 532(98.9%) with a stable clinical evolution; a total of 8048 (belonging to the day) patients were discharged from hospitals for a total of 692 040(93.8%) medical or epidemiological discharges. There are 121 critical patients and 298 in critical status.

Of the amount of patients diagnosed, 638 belong to the capital, of them 630 are native and 8 imported. We regret 5 casualties by Coronavirus in the capital: Boyeros(2), La Lisa, Arroyo Naranjo and Marianao (1 death each).

Dr. Durán informed that in the last 15 days, the incidence rate per 100 000 inhabitants has decreased, placing the capital in fortieth position in the country. 

The most affected municipalities in Habana were Centro Habana and Habana del Este (58), Diez de Octubre and Arroyo Naranjo (57), Boyeros (55), La Lisa (52), Playa(45),  Cerro and Marianao (40), Guanabacoa (38), Habana Vieja(32) Plaza de la Revolución(31), San Miguel del Padrón and  Cotorro(26),  and Regla,15.

56 043 test were studied for Covid- 19, with a result of 8568 positive samples whether with PCR or by antigen. The country accumulates 8 568 423 analyzed samples of which 737 168(8.6%) were positive.

Of the confirmed cases, 7994 people were contacts of confirmed cases accumulating 725 728(98.4%);17(0.2%) with source of infection from abroad for a total of 11 283(1.5%) and 24(0.30%) with unknown source of infection.

8006 cases were contacts of confirmed cases for an accumulate of 733 734(98.4%); 14(0.2%) with source of infection abroad for a total of 11 297, 14(0.2%) of them have an unknown source of infection.

There were 8018native cases this Saturday and 17 were imported of which 4214(52.4%) female and 3821(47.6%) male cases.

This Friday the amount of asymptomatic cases decreased to a 3.6 %(286), for a total of 121 513 which represents 16.5% 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 appeared from the beginning of the disease.

Of the 8035 confirmed cases, 1878 were under 20 years of age; 1925 between 20 and 39; 2428 between 40 and 59 and 1754, over 60.

The death rate for Covid 19 in Cuba, in September 10th, 2021 is 0.84% per million inhabitants which is lower than the 2.06% for the world and the 2.48 % for the Americas region.

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