COVID -19 in Cuba between new tensions and variants of the virus - Ips Cuba
La Habana, 16 ago.- Controlados los números rojos que pusieron en vilo a la provincia de Matanzas, la mayor complejidad de la epidemia de covid-19 en Cuba se desplazó a otros territorios, con elevados registros de casos y alta dispersión, en medio de la circulación en el país de nuevas variantes del virus SARS-CoV-2.
Of the 8,809 confirmed at the end of August 14 in the country, the Southern Central Province of Cienfuegos reported 990 cases, of them, 687 in the capital municipality, Cienfuegos, followed by Cumanayagua (176).
The most recent report by the Ministry of Public Health indicated that this territory accumulated 17,400 cases and has the highest incidence rate in the last 15 days (from July 31 to August 14), with 4,295 patients per 100,000 inhabitants and six ofits municipalities among the highest in the country.
However, in the midst of a wave of cases as a result of new variants, especially the Delta, with a high transmissibility, Cienfuegos, with nine deaths on August 14, is not the only territory that lives a complex epidemiological panorama.
Parece que no, pero sí
Although the figures of the provinces of Villa Clara (588) and Holguín (300) would not seem so alarming, in those territories there were on August 14 17 and 15 deaths, respectively, of the 98 registered that day with the Sars-Cov virus -two.
In Holguín, 733 kilometers from Havana, given the prognosis of the increase in cases, the mobility of people and vehicles “which unfortunately attentive in the confrontation to the COVID-19” was reduced, according to the Deputy Minister of Transportation, Roberto Ricardo, who remainsin that territory to reinforce the confrontation to the epidemic.
In Ciego de Ávila, with four municipalities among those with the highest incidence rates, the vehicular movement was also restricted, after the detection of false permits, private vehicles with state -owned cards and state cars circulating without passes, among other irregularities, according to thelocal press.
Although with a slight reduction of the high number of new positive, the Cuban capital reported on August 14, 1,059 cases in its 15 municipalities, effect of high mobility and closeness between the territories.
Aún no sale el sol
Since June Cuba lives an unpublished epidemiological situation and so far in August, 123,325 sick people were reported, for 8,809 infected and 84 dead as a daily average, figures far higher than July, until now the highest records, with 6,464 and 50, respectively.
The statistics of the Ministry of Public Health indicate that 29 municipalities of the country exceeded the day of August 14 the 100 new cases.
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In analysis of the pandemic, President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that the current situation exceeds the capacities of the health system, stressing the work of all their staff, of the agencies that support the confrontation, and also for the greater consumption of medicinesand oxygen.
In its daily part, the director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, Francisco Durán, said that in the country they are admitted, both in hospitals and isolation centers and at home, 93,119 people, of them, 40,472 confirmed with the COVID-19.
So that Cuba already accumulates 517,668 positive and 4,023 deaths since March 2020.
Durán warned that the Delta variant has great ease to spread, because when it falls into a family, almost all its members are infected.
According to Díaz-Canel, "there are indications that we can gradually improve the situation, but it is necessary, in addition to the result that is giving vaccination, complement it, ensure it, sustain it, strengthen it with responsible behavior by all of us."
In his opinion, this "is not achieved if we do not maintain the insulation standards, the hygienic-sanitary measures, if we do not support all the unfortunate restrictions that we have to have in conditions like these to be able to cut the transmission."
Fallas en el sistema de salud
When the day -to -day life of the Cuban and Cubans is marked by guaranteeing by some way food to put to the table, the government is discussed in keeping the economy afloat and handling the pandemic.
According to television reports, after visits to the provinces with complexity in the control of the pandemic, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero pointed out in the functioning of the health system organizational problems, violation of protocols and absence of work systems for home income control.
He also emphasized the problems in hospitals and isolation centers-from the lack of hygiene until medical care-, as well as in the health areas and neighborhoods, "that they decide today that the country leaves this complex juncture," he saidMarrero.
The errors detected in the blind of Ávila, Holguín and Guantanamo, warned, complicate the situation created by the low availability of medicines and the deficit of medical and nursing personnel in the health areas.
Marrero considered that it was not necessary to be ashamed because, as in other countries, the capacities of health institutions are exceeded, but when "above that pressure that the pandemic puts us, the effects are multiplied by buffers, negligence, errors".
The criticism of the Prime Minister to the health personnel during the Pandemic analysis meeting, in which he held him responsible for the current situation, caused protests on social networks and a letter of rejection of his criteria.
Una prioridad, la vacunación
Authorities of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries Group (Biocubafarma) reiterated on August 10 that the priority continues to advance vaccination to immunize one hundred percent of the population before the end of the year.
As announced by the director of Epidemiology, strategies are being adopted to accelerate vaccination in different population groups and territories, when the country accumulates 26.9 percent of the population with three doses, 32.2 with two and 42, 42,7 With the first dose of the Cuban vaccine Abdala.(2021)