Havana, December 13, 2013 : .The Cuban government tightened its measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in advance of Christmas. According to Xinhua, there are cultural events scheduled across the country in celebration of the new year.
According to the Ministry of Public Health, the move was made as the Caribbean country added 62 more cases on Sunday.
There are currently 331 Covid-19 patients on the island.16 of these cases are in intensive care units.
The Ministry reports that Covid-19 infections per 100,000 people have decreased in each of the 15 provincial areas over the last two weeks.
President Miguel Diaz Canel asked people to follow safety precautions to limit the spread of the disease throughout the country.
He stated that the Covid-19 virus was under control, but was still present.
“Now, we have to rigorously continue implementing the (preventive) measures, because, otherwise, we would scupper the efforts made during the vaccination campaign in Cuba.”
Health authorities have confirmed a Cuban medical worker, who arrived on the island from Mozambique, as its first case of the Omicron variant.
All travellers flying into Cuba from South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique are now required to show vaccination certificates and negative results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests taken within 72 hours of arrival.
Furthermore, the passengers are also required to take PCR tests on arrival and on the sixth day after arrival, as well as stay in quarantine hotels for a week at their own expense.
So far, 9.3 million people, or about 83.7 per cent of the island’s population, have been fully inoculated against Covid-19.
In addition, a booster vaccine drive is already underway in Havana, the country’s capital and most populous city with 2.2 million residents.
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