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There are no reports of Covid-19 coronavirus in Cuba
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“There are no cases diagnosed with Covid-19 coronavirus in Cuba,” said Dr. Francisco Durán García, national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), in a meeting with the national press on Monday. He added that in the country an intersectoral plan was prepared for the fight against the disease, which received its adaptation in each territory by the provincial and municipal health directorates, recently verified by a ministerial visit and that also includes prevention in sectors keys such as tourism, transport, customs, immigration and immigration, among others.

The protocols for action by health authorities This plan specifies the action protocols by the health authorities and by the Civil Defense. “Reagents are already in the country to make a diagnosis to people suspected of carrying the disease or being sick,” said the doctor, and said that conditions are created in the care units to provide high quality service, including therapy intermediate and intensive, to the whole patient infested with the coronavirus.

Therefore, he advised that travelers in contact with territories where the pathology circulates and with suspicion, should go to the doctor as the main preventive measure for themselves and for society, something also corroborated by Dr. Lorenzo Somarriba López, director of Surveillance in Health of the Minsap. The doctor also advised, as an important measure to take, hand washing for at least 20 seconds.

Also, do not touch the entrance doors of the virus with your fingers: eyes, nose and mouth.He defined the disease as a family of several viruses, which has infected 71,500 people to date, of them 1,771 dead, most of China and only three from other countries (Philippines, Japan and France).

He recommended taking information from the websites of the World Health Organization, because a large part of the circulation is intended to instill fears and panic in the population, with disrepute for the Asian country and with a discriminatory character for people from Asia. For his part, Dr. Carmelo Trujillo Machado, national head of the Program for International Health Control, said that all points of entry of travelers to the country keep active surveillance activated, so no travel restrictions have been decreed. He clarified that both the visitor and the permanent resident, upon arrival in Cuba, receive monitoring by trained professionals to detect symptoms of the disease and then follow up for primary care in the area where they will reside temporarily, including hotels that They have health posts.

All three recognized that the condition is being studied by experts in the world and today antiretrovirals are used as a medicine to counteract the pathology. One of them is a Cuban interferon generated by BioCubaFarma, which is produced in a plant with mixed capital (Cuban-Chinese) in the Asian nation.

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