Measures are adopted to prevent in-hospital COVID-19 outbreaks

Cuban hospitals establish their health strategies to avoid COVID-19 outbreaks. Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital, in Las Tunas, redistributes its care flows for greater protection.

The current epidemiological contingency demands better healthcare preparedness.

The province of Las Tunas enlists specialists and residents of the Medical Sciences according to the COVID-19 treatment protocols. The Henry Reeve contingent and the Public Health Systems of other Cuban provinces have some of them in their ranks.

A total of 17 outbreaks are under epidemiological surveillance

The province of Las Tunas reported today a positive case for SARS-CoV-2 from the municipality of Majibacoa, which is the contact of a previously confirmed patient, belonging to the surveillance focus of the Manuel (Piti) Fajardo polyclinic, in this city.

Health protocols are met with extreme rigor  at the educational centers

Around 25 classrooms of the different levels of education in Las Tunas were closed, at the end of this report, due to surveillance because there are possibilities that some students are infected with the COVID-19.

42 foci related to positive cases are being monitored in Las Tunas

Containing the rise of positive cases of COVID-19 and avoid the transmission of the disease is the priority of the Health personnel in Las Tunas, who, given the extreme epidemiological alert, active investigations in the community and the surveillance of suspects and contacts of confirmed.