Dr: Juan Jesús Llambías Peláez, Provincial Director of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Camagüey
Camagüey, Aug 27.- After more than one hundred days without positive COVID-19 cases in the community, the province of Camagüey reported in the part closed on August 26, a patient with the disease, detected in the municipality of Florida.
Camagüey, Aug 27.- The University of Camagüey (UC) "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz" will begin teaching activities on September 1 with the mission of complying with the calendar approved by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, to carry out three academic periods from September 2020 to July 2021: culmination of the 2019-2020 course and the development from November of the 2020-2021 course semesters.
At the close of yesterday, April 21, 3,425 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 5 thousand 497 people are watched in their homes, from the Primary Health Care.
For COVID-19, 1,860 cases were studied, resulting in 52 positive samples. The country accumulates 32 thousand 276 samples and thousand 189 positive (3.7%). Therefore, at the close of yesterday, 52 new cases are confirmed, for a cumulative of 1,189 in the country.
The 52 new confirmed cases were Cuban. Of these, 43 were contacts of confirmed cases and 9 did not specify the source of infection.
At the close of yesterday (April 21, 2020), in the province of # Camagüey it has 34 confirmed cases of the new # COVID19 that are distributed in the municipalities of Camagüey (24), Florida (5), Nuevitas (2) , Esmeralda (2) and Vertientes (1) (See Map in attached images), who are kept admitted and have 24-hour medical attention and 199 are admitted to Health institutions designated for isolation, with a constant checkup stops acting on any symptoms of the disease and their contacts are kept under epidemiological surveillance. Discharging a total of 11 confirmed patients with # COVID19 in the province after complying with the isolation measures and the control and surveillance system in the designated health institutions in the territory.
The residence by municipalities of the 34 confirmed cases can be seen directly on the attached Map.
Cases confirmed so far:
Camagüey, Apr 22.- Considering the existence of an active event of limited local indigenous transmission of Covid-19 in an area of the Buenos Aires-Bellavista People's Council of this municipality, the Provincial Defense Council (CDP) proposed the quarantine entry of a portion of that demarcation.