CAMAGÜEY.- Of the six confirmed cases with the Sars Cov TWO so far this week the source of infection of five is not yet clear, which aggravates the epidemiological situation of the province. In Camagüey, after more than 100 days without reporting native cases, if dispersion continues and the index case cannot be found, the return to the phase of limited native transmission, which increases the risk for all population.
The cases reported this Monday and Tuesday belong, the first three, to Camagüey´s municipality and the three remaining ones to Vertientes, Florida and Sibanicú, territory, where the presence of the COVID-19 virus had not been detected before. Of those confirmed on Tuesday, 108 contacts have already been studied and all came out negative.
Dr. Alfredo Leal Gutierrez, head of the Respiratory Infections Program, said that one of them lives in the Imán cast, corresponding to the Tula Aguilera health area and is a worker of the Railway Company from whom 78 contacts are evaluated.
The other two people work in the branch of Popular Saving Bank of Cisneros Street, on the corner of Hermanos Agüero, one of them lives in Altagracia community corresponding to the Finlay health area and the other in the Sánchez Soto cast of the Previsora Policlinic. These two cases generated 304 contacts and as for the direct ones, the negative results of PCRs were received.
Only one of the last six positive results showed symptoms, the rest were detected by the surveillance that is carried out on vulnerable groups and, therefore, they were asymptomatic at the time of admission. This ratifies the need for physical distancing, use of masks and compliance of the hygiene measures, since the virus is circulating in the territory.
At the close of this Wednesday, there were 106 -four from Camagüey- people confirmed to the new Coronavirus admitted to the Military Hospital Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja and 55 at Amalia Simoni Hospital -two of this province-, of the Ciego de Ávila´s patients, three are in critical state and four seriously ill.
Thirty suspects also receive care in institutions while eight remain in the Eduardo Agramonte Piña pediatric hospital under surveillance, two in the Military and six in Amalia Hospital.
Many of the patients from Ciego de Avila were hospitalized for different ailments to which the virus was added, making it complex in their current diagnosis and explains that a greater number will reach states of seriousness.
More than 11,378 PCRs have been performed on Camagüey´s citizens, 1131 in the last week, and of the 67 accumulated cases, 57 have already been discharged and 54 received the epidemiological discharge. Dr. Leal Gutierrez explained that it has been incorporated to the protocol of attention the accomplishment of a second confirmation PCR until five days after the first one, to ensure that no newly infested patient will test negative and then develop disease.
In the points of entry to the province have been received 218 people in 125 vehicles, 19 from Havana, two from Pinar del Río, two from Mayabeque, one from Artemisa, 53 from Matanzas, seven from Cienfuegos, 34 from Villa Clara, 35 from Sancti Spíritus, 65 from Ciego de Ávila, still too many for the current health situation of the country that requires moving only the essential and to limit the trips even if they are for work reasons.
- Translated by Mariam Heredia Acosta/ Student