Cuba reported on Saturday over 1,000 cases of the novel coronavirus disease for the tenth consecutive day, with 1,110 cases and 12 deaths registered in the last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Public Health said that the country has registered 100,318 cases and 581 deaths.
"The evolution of the disease is not the same as at the beginning of the pandemic," said the ministry's national director of hygiene and epidemiology, Francisco Duran.
Duran stated that 663 of the newly reported cases were detected in Havana, the epicenter of the country's pandemic, which has an incidence rate of 402.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Cuba has been facing a new wave of COVID-19 infections since January, as authorities have moved to regulate the closure of many public spaces, restrict mobility, and require testing and quarantining for arriving travelers.
Meanwhile, the third and final phase of clinical trials for the Cuban vaccine candidate Soberana-02 continues in Havana alongside an intervention study among health workers, while Phase II clinical trials for another vaccine candidate Soberana Plus continue in the capital.
In addition, Phase III clinical trials and an intervention trial for the vaccine candidate Abdala are being carried out in the eastern part of the country, while two other candidates, Soberana-01 and Mambisa, are at different stages of research.
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