Faced with the sustained increase of COVID-19 positive cases, the ‘Antonio Luaces Iraola’ General Teaching Hospital in this province is reorganizing its services to respond to current needs and maintain its usual emergency services.

Cuban deputy Prime Minister Ines Maria Chapman Waugh visited this weekend health care and service centers in the Cuban eastern city of Holguin, where she checked the situation presented by the territory in the fight against the pandemic.

The total number of COVID-19 pediatric patients in Cuba has reached 69 thousand 539, some 15.8 percent of all cases reported in the country.

The immunization against COVID-19 is well underway in Cuba with the recent administration so far of 10 million 616 thousand 592 doses of locally developed vaccines.

 Cuba reported on Thursday some 407 patients in Intensive Care Units, with 150 of them in critical conditions. It’s the highest count of Cuban in ICUs since the pandemic’s onset on the island.

The Provincial Communist Party leader in Havana Luis Antonio Torres said on Thursday that top Cuban government authorities are insisting in the need to guarantee the protection of health workers against COVID-19.

A contingent of 210 health professionals arrived as reinforcements to face the complex epidemiological situation in the province of Ciego de Avila due to the high transmission of COVID-19.

With the report today of 8,399 new positive cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, Cuba has accumulated 431,013 confirmed cases since March last year, 90.4 percent (%) of them recovered.

Cuba administered 10 million 267 thousand 358 doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to August 2nd, according to the island’s Health Ministry.

Cuba reported 98 deaths as a consequence of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the largest number of deaths in one day since the onset her of the pandemic in March 2020.

Cuba surpassed 10 million doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines applied, but there is still a long way to go to win the battle, warned today on Twitter the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

With the premise of using all possible spaces, the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila is applying alternatives to increase admission capacities for patients positive for the SARS CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, and to reduce the number of those who stay at home.

Phase one of clinical trials on the first group of 44 children from 3 to 11 years of age with the Cuban vaccine Abdala raises expectations among the population in this eastern province.

A total of 2,680,648 Cubans have already completed the three-dose scheme of one of the immunogens developed in the country against COVID-19.