At the end of Monday, 133 patients were hospitalized, 44 suspect cases and 89 active ones.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March, 2020, Cuba has run 14,276,011 tests, 1,112,048 of which were positive.

Seven cases of the total number detected on Tuesday were contacts of confirmed ones, and three people got infected abroad.

As for age groups, four cases are minors under 20; two patients are from 20 to 39 years of age; one was from 40 to 59 years old; and 3 were 60 or over.

Some 8,530 people have died from this disease in the past three years, so the lethality rate stands at 0.77 compared to the 1.01 percent in the world and the 1.55 percent in the Americas.

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