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Cuba reports 8,886 Covid-19 cases and 75 deaths

Havana, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban health authorities reported 8,886 Covid-19 cases and 75 deaths on Friday, due to complications related to the disease in the last 24 hours.

With these statistics, Cuba has accumulated 439,899 Covid-19 contagions and 3,259 deaths since the pandemic broke out in the country on March 11, 2020, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), stated.

In his regular press briefing on television, the expert pointed out that on Thursday, all molecular biology laboratories in Cuba made 43,388 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the coronavirus, totaling 6,778,087 samples so far.

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