From the increase in confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Holguín province, restrictive measures and the application of sanitary protocols have been extreme, in order to contain the disease, in the midst of a complex epidemiological situation spread throughout Cuba where diverse varieties of SarsCov-2 converge.

Dr. Alcides Lazo, an official in the Provincial Health Directorate, specified that work continues with expert teams to provide follow-up to the towns with the highest transmission, currently concentrated in Moa and the provincial capital, as it is where the highest figures are registered of positives and suspicious patients.

He stressed that the improvement of isolation protocols, the epidemiological survey and active health research continues, which aims to reduce transmission in the community and contribute to the protection of vulnerable sectors of the population, including children, postpartum women and pregnant women.

He also reiterated the importance of complying with the biosecurity measures established in the family and work environment, including social distancing, the use of the nasobuco and the disinfection of hands and surfaces with chlorine or alcoholic solutions.

In the territory, admission capacities for high and low risk confirmed and suspects have also been increased, with a total of 64 centers and the Fermín Valdés Domínguez Military Hospital and the Lucía Íñiguez Landín Surgical Clinic enabled to deal with the new coronavirus according to information provided by the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology.

Parallel to this process, the vaccination with Abdala continues to the population group aged 60 years and over, in about 200 vaccination centers and clinical sites set up in the main municipality, which has already been administered the first dose of the immunogen to more than 12 thousand inhabitants since the start of health intervention this Monday.

The province maintains eight open events of local community transmission and some 700 outbreaks under follow-up, as a sign of the high transmission of the virus, for which the perception of risk is essential in containing the pandemic in the territory, with an incidence rate of 257 sick per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 15 days.