At the end of 2022, 145,545 patients positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus were reported in Cuba, and although the figure expresses a considerable reduction in infections compared to 2021 with a closure of 954,417 people with the coronavirus, we must be alert, Portal said.

The highest levels of transmission in 2022 were in the provinces of Holguín, Camagüey, Ciego de Ávila, Matanzas, Sancti Spíritus and Las Tunas, where 51 percent of the diagnosed patients were concentrated.

In all the territories a considerable decrease in cases was verified, being Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Pinar del Río, the ones with the greatest decrease compared to the previous year.

The Cuban Minister regretted the death of patients as a result of Covid-19, and specified that only in 2022, 207 lost their lives due to the disease. Studies carried out in the laboratories of the “Pedro Kourí” Institute of Tropical Medicine, investigating characteristics of the circulating SARS-CoV-2, confirmed that in 2022 the Ómicron variant prevailed in Cuba.

It is essential to give priority to the use of the mask in places that imply risks of contagion, especially by vulnerable people.

You should not go to work, school or social events if you have respiratory symptoms, Portal emphasized.

A few days ago, the minister commented, a new booster dose of nationally produced anti-Covid-19 vaccines began to be applied to the population at risk, which includes pregnant women, women who are still breastfeeding their babies, people over 70 and others who, due to their pathologies or workplaces, could be vulnerable.

Likewise, the second booster dose will be completed for those between the ages of 19 and 48 who did not receive it. In all cases they can only be vaccinated if six months have elapsed since the previous application.

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