During his daily press briefing on television, the national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Dr. Francisco Duran, said that 24,600 patients are in hospitals nationwide, including 3,688 suspected cases, 16,165 under surveillance and 4,747 active patients.
He explained that all 25 molecular biology laboratories in Cuba performed 20,993 real-time PCR tests to detect the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus.
Cuba has accumulated 3,277,536 such tests since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year.
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