CAMAGÜEY.- This July 3 must classify as one of the dates of the year. It is the brand of the almanac in which Cuba as a whole looks proudly the focus of recovery. The advanced provinces will go through their second phase in the recovery stage (with the exception of Matanzas); and Havana begins its de-escalation.

It is not because it is Havana. But it is also because it is about Havana. The capital was the only province that, between contagion and contagion, and focus and more focus, had remained hooked on the demand link. Demand for more PCR (more than 1000 per date). Demand for more hard work. Demand for more part-proof nerves and accurate news.

And it's not like today's is an absolute party. Although this week (the 16th of the epidemic in Cuba) is the least positive for the virus (20 until this Thursday, July 2) since the week of the first cases (with 4), Havana and Mayabeque have continued to “increase” their stats.

When the confirmed box is filled as round as the grave, critical and deceased box this Thursday (at 0 three o'clock), then we will have busted the virus (never better used) and all its chains. It will only remain, then, tied to the protection measures. Because Dr. Francisco Durán has already said it, it is difficult to predict the end of this disease due to its high contagiousness, and the complexity of its transmission from asymptomatic carriers (54.1% of cases in Cuba have not presented symptoms at the time of the diagnosis; only in the last 15 days 80% of the positives presented this characteristic).

In addition, and as a party pooper, another piece of information stands out. With both of this Thursday, there are already 263 minors infected with the new coronavirus (95.4% have already recovered). To continue adding misadventures, it highlights that an eight-year-old girl and a family and a country must deal with the inexplicable explanation of finding the disease so close and elusive and without a source of infection (4.6% of all diagnosed).

To extend this point, Dr. Durán gave a very clear example. A study carried out in China verified the "guilt" of a single person in the contagion of almost another hundred. On March 19, the authorities of that country decreed the isolation of a resident from the United States at her home. This was not confined as it should have been and on April 22 she remained asymptomatic, but was the source of infection for more than 70 citizens with whom she had not been related. In a fault, in a person, even in the “normality” that is the absence of alarms, an entire chain of infections can be found.

However, even when not letting our guard down results in the spread of responsibility, we can see the proximity of a definitive control of the virus (there are only 44 active cases; and we accumulate 2,221 discharges, which means the recovery of 94.4% of our patients). Above all, because when you hear such devastating figures as the more than 10 million cases that the world ascends, or the more than 3800 deaths that our region reported in a single day, it encourages our "genetic" predisposition to scarcity. In numbers and finances, it is already well known. Also now in the boxes that corner a millionaire virus. Some so round with zeros; another that goes down, that sometimes goes up, but tends to suffocate in a single digit. And in these hardships our abundance goes.

  • Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez