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Cuban Health Ministry reports 9,764 new Covid-19 cases, 78 deaths

Havana, Aug 20 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) on Friday reported 9,764 new Covid-19 cases and 78 deaths due to complications related to the disease in the last 24 hours.

With these statistics, Cuba has accumulated 564,011 Covid-19 contagions and 4,397 deaths since the pandemic broke out in the country on March 11, 2020, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at MINSAP, stated in his regular press briefing on television.

To date, 104,105 active patients are in hospitals or their homes nationwide, including 53,059 suspected cases, 4,597 under epidemiological surveillance and 46,449 active patients with the virus.

On Thursday, all molecular biology laboratories in Cuba made 49,635 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the coronavirus, totaling 7,388,327 samples so far.

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