From last week of May the “good news” for Guantánamo is that the 251 PCR tests performed to 85 families in the province, all tested negative, as part of the SARS –COV 2 seroprevalence study carried out in 70 municipalities in different rural and urban areas of the country.
This was announced by Roilder Romero Frómeta, Director of the Health sector, at the meeting of the Provincial Defense Council, where the continuity of these studies was reported in a second moment, with rapid tests being carried out on the same population to search for immunoglobalins (IGM) for the detection of antibodies to Covid 19.
In the province, the study is carried out on vulnerable population groups of 17 medical offices, eight in the Guantanamo City; those of Carrera Larga, Santo Domingo and Ojo de Agua, in El Salvador; Romelié, La Deseada and El Yarey, in Manuel Tames; and Jesús Lores, Las Cruces and El Cuero, in Imías.
21 days after performing the rapid tests there will be a third moment of the investigation with the repetition of the real-time PCR on the same 251 people.
This seroprevalence study is the first of its kind to be carried out in the region of the Americas, the one most affected by Covid 19, and will allow progress monitoring possible asymptomatic cases of the disease, identifying the most important risk factors for spreading, stop the spread of the virus and assess its behavior throughout the nation.
The Defense Council also knew that Guantanamo continues with no reports of new Covid-19 positive cases, and there are no patients admitted as suspects or contacts.
At the end of May, the decisive month in the Cuban battle against the coronavirus, it is essential to reinforce the control of the number of travelers who arrive in the province, the quality of health research at the community level and continue with the necessary social distancing.