The highest values ​​to the IgM SUMA test for the diagnosis of Dengue are manifested in Isla de la Juventud, Havana, Camagüey, Holguín, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo.

Cuba has 13 consecutive weeks without deaths from COVID-19

, reported this Tuesday the First Deputy Minister of Public Health, Tania Margarita Cruz Hernández, during the meeting of the Government Working Group that monitors the epidemiological situation in the country, headed by the Prime Minister. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

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, five patients remain in the Intensive Care Rooms, two critical and three serious.

The lethality since the epidemic began, he recalled, is 0.77%, which represents 8,529 deaths.

These data are part of the report that the Ministry of Public Health presents at the Palace of the Revolution to the highest leadership of the country, where it also realized that

at the end of last week the diagnosis of positives decreased by 17.3%. , with 127 fewer cases.

Active cases also decreased by 84 from one week to the next.

At this point, President Díaz-Canel alerted the authorities of the province of Holguín, a territory with the highest incidence of positive cases in the country: 271 in the last 14 days.

Everything that is being done there must be reviewed, said the president, this is the most complicated province, the one that has the most persistence, with a large number of cases at this time of the epidemic.

In this meeting - led by Deputy Prime Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández and linked by videoconference with all the provinces of the country - an evaluation was also made on the situation of Dengue, a disease that is in the transmission phase in 13 Cuban provinces: only Mayabeque and Artemisa are left out of that list.

The highest values ​​to the IgM SUMA test for the diagnosis of Dengue are manifested in Isla de la Juventud, Havana, Camagüey, Holguín, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo.

The First Secretary considered that little progress is being made in confronting this disease and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the measures applied is necessary.

It is important, he said, to delve into the works, not only in their quantity but also in their quality.

For this fight, Díaz-Canel pointed out, more popular participation is needed, explaining to people, making exchanges at the neighborhood level and calling for people to actively participate in the fight against Aedes Aegypti within their homes and also in the community. .

These are the ways in which we can move to seek greater effectiveness in cutting dengue transmission, he specified.