Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) on Tuesday reported 792 new Covid-19 cases and 1,060 recovered patients over the last 24 hours, totaling 62,998 contagions and 58,610 recoveries.

Three patients died in the last hours due to complications related to the pandemic, so the death toll rose to 376 since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in March 2020, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at MINSAP, said.

The doctor stated that 3,956 active patients are in hospitals, 3,885 of them are clinically stable, 41 are seriously ill and 30 are in critical condition.

Dr. Duran pointed out that of the 792 new cases, 109 are under 18 years of age, and five of them are newborns.

With these figures, the number of patients in that group rises to 7,301 (357 newborns in total).

To date, no deaths of any child or adolescent have been reported and 90 percent are already on medical discharge. 734 are active patients and all are clinically stable, the epidemiologist pointed out.

On Monday, Cuban laboratories made 19,812 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the virus, totaling 2,690,636 samples so far.

From March to December 2020, 12,056 cases and 146 deaths were reported, the number of Covid-19 cases increased to 15,530 in January and the death toll was 70. Those figures rose to 23,004 and 108, respectively, in February.

Cuba is making progress in the development of five own vaccine candidates to fight the disease, one of which, Soberana 02, is in Phase III of clinical trials.

More than 44,000 volunteers between 19 and 80 years of age have been immunized in Havana province, whose results have so far been satisfactory.