At the close of this Friday, a total of 245 patients were admitted, 126 suspected and 119 confirmed active.

The country accumulates 14 million 356 thousand 977 samples carried out and of them one million 113 thousand 830 positive.

Of the total number of new diagnoses, 16 were contacts of confirmed cases and 19 without a specified source of infection.

By age group, 27 are under 20 years of age, four from 20 to 39 and another four from 40 to 59 years.

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Cuba has accumulated 8,530 deaths for a mortality rate of 0.77 percent compared to 1.0 percent in the world and 1.53 in the Americas.

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