HAVANA.- Cuba reported 16 new positive cases for COVID 19, for a total of 1,963 cases for SARS Cov 2, Dr Francisco Duran, National Director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) told the press on his daily report.

By the close of May 25, 434 patients remain in hospitals for clinical epidemiological surveillance, while 1,823 others are being monitored in their homes by the Primary Health Care.

The 16 new confirmed cases were Cubans; 15 of them were contacts of confirmed cases and in one the source of infection is not specified.
Eleven of them were women, the rest (five) were men and 14 were asymptomatic.

The most affected age group was that of 40-59 years old with 7 cases, followed by the one of 20-39 year-old group (5).

Only 170 of the positive cases remain in hospitals while 166 (97.6%) of them present stable clinical evolution and 1,709 patients (87.1%) of the confirmed cases have been discharged.

The amount of deaths reaches 82 (0 yesterday) and there are 4 patients in serious condition.

Official data show that 185 countries have so far reported cases of COVID-19, with 5.371,660 confirmed cases and 344,814 deaths for a lethality of 6.42%.

The Americas region reports 2.471,491 confirmed cases (46.01 percent of the cases worldwide), with 144,347 deaths and fatality rate of 5.84%.