On Monday, all molecular biology laboratories in Cuba made 8,740 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, totaling 13,329,129 such tests so far.

Of 3,334 active cases nationwide, 3,314 are clinically stable while 20 are being treated in intensive care units, including four in a critical condition and 16 who are seriously ill.

At a press briefing on television, the MINSAP added that 755 patients were discharged after recovering from the disease, so the total number of recovered patients rose to 1,070,979 (accounting for 98.9 percent of all cases).

So far, Cuba has accumulated 1,082,880 contagions and 8,508 deaths since the first Covid-19 cases were detected in the country on March 11, 2020.

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