Cuba sees record 51 Covid deaths in a day By IANS | 2 Views
A woman wearing a face mask walks on a street in Havana, Cuba. (Photo by Joaquin Hernandez/Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News Havana, July 15 : Cuba on Wednesday reported 51 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours, the highest one-day death toll since the start of the outbreak. The latest deaths raised the total pandemic death toll to 1,659, the Ministry of Public Health said, adding that 6,080 new Covid-19 infections detected in the same 24 hours brought the total number of cases to 256,607, Xinhua news agency reported. Director of hygiene and epidemiology at the ministry Francisco Duran said that out of the new daily cases, 78 were infected abroad.