With these statistics, Cuba has accumulated 914,779 contagions and 7,812 deaths since the pandemic broke out in the country in March 2020, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), stated.

In his regular press briefing on television, Dr. Duran informed that on Friday, all molecular biology laboratories in Cuba made 39,347 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, totaling 9,925,461 samples so far.

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