The first positive case for COVID-19 in Guantánamo was confirmed in the afternoon hours of this Sunday, March 29, reported María Esmera Pascual Arrimiñán, head of the Department of International Health Control at the Provincial Directorate of Hygiene.
The patient, a native of Manuel Tames, arrived from France on March 20 through Havana and arrived in her municipality on the 21st. There she was kept under surveillance by the health team in her area, and remained asymptomatic until the morning of the 25th. When it starts with flu-like symptoms, Pascual Arrimiñán explained.
On Thursday the 26th - he explained - he was taken to the Dr. Agostinho Neto General Teaching Hospital and was placed in solitary confinement, while the contacts were identified and they went to the Daniel Llosas Preval pioneer camp, a center dedicated to monitoring people related to cases positive, where 25 are now monitored in total.
The specialist stressed that the patient evolves satisfactorily and does not present clinical complications, and specified that all positive cases to COVID-19 will be transferred to Santiago de Cuba.
Today the country registers 170 people infected by the new coronavirus, and at the close of yesterday there were 2,681 patients admitted for clinical-epidemiological surveillance in isolation and care centers, and another 29,885 people are monitored in their homes. for primary health care.
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