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At this Sunday close, 107 people tested positive for COVID-19, after 2,388 samples were taken for surveillance during the day, informed the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) in its usual report.

With these figures, Cuba accumulates 14 036 595 samples made and 1 108 201 were positive.

As of July 31^st, 739 persons were admitted: 292 suspects and 447 active confirmed cases. Of the latter, 440 (98.4%) have a stable clinical evolution, while one patient is in critical condition and six are evaluated as serious.

There were 106 medical discharges during the day (accumulating 1,099,166, 99.2%) and no deaths were reported, so the cumulative number of people who have lost their lives due to COVID-19 remains at 8,529, for a case fatality rate of 0.77% (1.11% worldwide and 1.63% in the Americas).

Of the 107 cases diagnosed yesterday:

• 73 were contacts of confirmed cases.
• Three had a foreign source of infection.
• 31 had no source of infection specified.
• Sixty-three were female and 44 were male.
• Nine cases were asymptomatic (8.4%), which increase to 147,288 patients with this condition, 13.3% of those confirmed to date.
• By age group: less than 20 years (54), 20 to 39 years (28), 40 to 59 years (15) and 60 years and over (10).

Residence of confirmed cases by province and municipality:

Pinar del Río: 1 case

• San Juan y Martínez: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Artemisa: 1 case

• Guanajay: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

La Habana: 8 cases

• Boyeros: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Diez de Octubre: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• La Lisa: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Habana del Este: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Guanabacoa: 1 (imported)
• San Miguel del Padrón: 1 (imported)

Mayabeque: 10 cases

• San José de las Lajas: 2 (confirmed case contacts)
• Güines: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Santa Cruz del Norte: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Nueva Paz: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Bejucal: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Jaruco: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Melena del Sur: 1 (contact confirmed cases)
• San Nicolás de Bari: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Matanzas: 6 cases

• Matanzas: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Cárdenas: 3 (2 contacts of confirmed cases and 1 imported case)
• Colón: 1 (contacts of confirmed cases)

 Cienfuegos: 5 cases

• Cienfuegos: 4 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Lajas: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Villa Clara: 1 case

• Placetas: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Sancti Spíritus: 6 cases

• Trinidad: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• La Sierpe: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Taguasco: 1 (no source of infection specified)
• Cabaiguán: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Ciego de Avila: 5 cases

• Ciego de Avila: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Baraguá: 2 (1 contact of confirmed cases and 1 with no source of infection specified)

Camagüey: 4 cases

• Camagüey: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Santa Cruz del Sur: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)
• Esmeralda: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Las Tunas: 7 cases

• Puerto Padre: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Las Tunas: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Manatí: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Holguin: 21 cases

• Holguín: 10 (no source of infection specified)

• Rafael Freire: 4 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Urbano Noris: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)

• Gibara: 2 (1 contact of confirmed cases and 1 with no source of infection specified)

• Báguanos: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

• Cacocum: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

• Moa: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Granma: 3 cases

• Bayamo: 2 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Manzanillo: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

Santiago de Cuba: 19 cases

• Santiago de Cuba: 11 (no source of infection specified)

• Palma Soriano: 4 (1 contact of confirmed cases and 3 without source of infection specified)

• Songo La Maya: 3 (2 contacts of confirmed cases and 1 with no source of infection specified)

• San Luis: 1 (no source of infection specified)

Guantánamo: 9 cases

• Maisí: 5 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• Guantánamo: 3 (contacts of confirmed cases)
• El Salvador: 1 (contact of confirmed cases)

(Taken from CUBADEBATE)