Cuba discharges 52 patients from hospitals

According to the director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr Francisco Duran on Sunday that Cuba has recorded 2,620 recovered patients out of 3,316 Covid-19 cases.

The expert remarked this at a regular daily press briefing to provide a report regarding the health situation of Cuba that 52 patients were discharged from hospitals in the past 24 hours.

Duran said that the number of persons discharged, 52 is favourable, in comparison to the number of new confirmed cases on which were discovered on Saturday.

Twenty-four new confirmed cases of the virus were discovered on Saturday.

The expert explained that the patients who are discharged from hospitals would now go home, where they would remain under clinical-epidemiological surveillance at the Primary Care Level.

After 14 days (that is, a month after the appearance of first symptoms), they would be tested again to determine their complete recovery and, if they test negative for the virus, then they return to their normal lives.

606 active COVID-19 patients are currently in hospitals, and 601 of them are recovering satisfactorily, while two patients are in a critical condition, and three patients are seriously ill, Dr Duran said.

He also said, 1,519 patients, are already under clinical-epidemiological surveillance.

According to Dr Duran, 3,646 PCR tests were done on Saturday all across Cuba for detecting the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which has brought the total number of tests done in Cuba to date, to 327,689 tests.

No new case of death due to the virus was reported on Saturday, so the death toll of Cuba remains at 88.