In total, more than 35,000 tests have been made per million inhabitants, between real-time PCR and rapid tests, in Cuba until July 1 to detect possible cases of coronavirus, Dr. Francisco Durán, national director epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, explained this Friday.
Cuba is one of the countries with the highest number of tests made per million inhabitants to detect COVID-19, according to the island’s health authorities.
In total, more than 35,000 tests have been made per million inhabitants, between real-time PCR and rapid tests, in Cuba until July 1 to detect possible cases of coronavirus, Dr. Francisco Durán, national director epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), explained this Friday, cited by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) new agency.
In his usual morning press conference on the country’s epidemiological situation, Durán said that this number places Cuba among the 20 countries with the most diagnoses made, “despite not being among the most affected” by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The epidemiologist said that the figures for Cuba don’t appear officially on the world statistics site (Statista.com), but that “it could be placed on the table, with exactly 35,115 tests, between rapid tests and PCRs” per million persons. He said that according to that site, the United Kingdom leads that indicator with 138,860 diagnoses, followed by Russia, Qatar, Spain, the United States, Italy, Canada, Germany and China.
Source: OnCuba
