Cuba confirmed at the end of this Tuesday 21 positive cases of COVID-19, no deaths and 26 medical discharges, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported in its usual report.

196 patients are admitted, of them 87 suspects and 109 confirmed.

Yesterday, 1,466 samples were processed in the country's molecular biology laboratories, and as a result, 21 COVID-19 infections were confirmed.

There are 14,123,328 samples carried out for the diagnosis of SARS-Cov-2 and 1,110,948 people diagnosed with the disease.

Of the new cases:

  • 15 were contacts of confirmed cases.

  • 6 with no specified source of infection.

  • 10 were female and 11 male.

  • No asymptomatic patients are reported on the day.

  • By age groups: under 20 years old (16), from 20 to 39 years old (1), from 40 to 59 years old (1), from 60 and over (3).

Of the 1,110,948 patients diagnosed with the disease, 109 remain hospitalized, 108 of them with stable clinical evolution.

There are 8,530 deaths (none on the day), a lethality of 0.77% vs 1.06% in the world and 1.59% in the Americas;

two evacuated, 57 returned to their countries, on the day there were 26 discharges (5 more than those diagnosed), they accumulate 1,102,250 (99.2%).

1 confirmed serious patient is treated in intensive care.

Residence by province and municipality of confirmed cases:

Pinar del Rio: 1 case

  • Pinar del Río: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Artemis: 1 case

  • San Cristóbal: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Havana: 2 cases

  • Havana Center: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Hill: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Massacres: 2 cases

  • Calimete: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Colon: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Villa Clara: 1 case

  • Santo Domingo: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Sancti Spiritus: 1 case

  • Cabaiguán: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Ciego de Avila: 1 case

  • Baraguá: 1 (no specified source of infection)

Camaguey: 3 cases

  • Camagüey: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Florida: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Nuevitas: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Las Tunas: 2 cases

  • Las Tunas: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Majibacoa: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Holguin: 5 cases

  • Baguanos: 1 (confirmed case contact)

  • Holguín: 3 (no specified source of infection)

  • Mayarí: 1 (confirmed case contact)

Santiago de Cuba: 1 case

  • Santiago de Cuba: 1 (no specified source of infection)

Guantanamo: 1 case

  • Baracoa: 1 (no specified source of infection)

(With information from the MINSAP)