COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Cuba |
Index case | Trinidad |
Arrival date | 24 February 2020 (1 year, 1 week and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 40,000[1][2] |
Suspected cases‡ | 5,000[3] |
Recovered | 34,000[1] |
Deaths | 269[1] |
Government website | |
https://covid19cubadata.github.io/#cuba | |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Cuba on 11 March 2020 when three Italian tourists tested positive for the virus.[4]