The number of admitted patients is 6,934, of which 4,506 are suspects, 37 are under surveillance and 2,391 are confirmed active, according to the daily report released by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap).

Of the total number of infections with the closure of yesterday, 426 were contacts of confirmed cases, four with a source of infection abroad and in 17 the origin of the infection could not be determined.

Designed authorities granted 570 medical discharges for those who suffered from Covid-19 and with this the recovery of nationals reached one million 63 thousand (99 percent of all those confirmed).

Two thousand 391 patients are admitted to hospital centers, two thousand 371 with a stable clinical evolution, while 20 are treated in intensive care: four critical and 16 serious.

The province with the highest incidence on the day was eastern Holguín, with 89 cases.

Cuba accumulates one million 73 thousand 951 diagnosed with the pathogen since March 11, 2020 and the total number of fatalities as a result of the pandemic reached eight thousand 501.

Such behavior places the lethality of the Caribbean island at 0.79 percent, well below the 1.35 in the world and 1.78 in the American continent, according to a comparison of the data specified by the MINSAP.

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