When time comes and it is decided, local authorities will take into account security measures and action protocols for these cases, respecting the international health regulations, Durán said.

Our medical centers are well-equipped and we have the necessary health personnel for carrying out an epidemiological control to travelers.

The medical surveillance was always conducted on those who arrived in Cuba, it is not just a procedure for the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Duran said.

We are fortunate to have no land borders, so we can spend time on epidemiologically controlling the arriving sightseer flows in ports and airports, Durán said.

The specialist stressed that Cuba has not reported Covid-19 reinfected cases, and did not rule out the possibility that it will become an endemic disease.

The national director of Epidemiology also reported that out of 321 patients hospitalized, 314 remain clinicaly stable.

Dr. Durán said that by Saturday 22 new cases were detected, and 35 patients who had healed were discharged. Some 78.4% of active cases have recovered.

He stressed that it is almost common to see more discharges than hospital admissions, and deaths have not been reproted to date, so Cuba´s death toll continues to be 79.

The specialist regretted that in the country’s intensive therapies they are treating two critically ill and five seriously ill patients, and he also mentioned with satisfaction that there are no children reported with the Covid-19 in last few hours.

Of the 1,862 positive cases in Cuba, nearly 50% were asymptomatic, exactly 49.6%, said Durán, who highlighted Cuba’s lab works that processed 2,460 samples on Friday, with 22 positive cases, all nationals.

Durán said that of the 1,862 patients, 1,460 have already recovered. It is something rather positive to evaluate the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Cuba.