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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez assured this Friday on the social media platform X that the actions of the Cuban government “are bearing fruit” in response to the arboviral epidemic affecting Cuba.
“In a meeting of experts and scientists, mathematical models were presented indicating control of the arbovirus epidemic in the country. The measures are yielding results, and we will not let our guard down. We continue with the working system that we have implemented,” wrote the president.
The post sparked critical responses, including one from a user who commented: “Experts and scientists really need to create a model that indicates how much longer this life you’ve imposed on Cubans will last. How much longer will this suffering continue? I need that mathematical-scientific model, or a fortune-teller, or Nostradamus.”
Díaz-Canel’s message followed a meeting held on the afternoon of December 24 with scientists and health system experts at the Palace of the Revolution, where they informed him that cases of dengue and chikungunya are showing a downward trend.
MINSAP experts confirm that Cuba has experienced eight consecutive weeks of decline in the diagnoses of arboviruses. However, most provinces, except for Matanzas, Granma, and Isla de la Juventud, remain within the endemic epidemic corridor.
The mathematician Raúl Guinovart Díaz stated that the forecasting models “indicate a trend towards improvement” and estimated that the situation could be controlled between January and February, as long as environmental conditions do not change.
Despite the optimism, the data from the meeting confirm that there are still more than 2,800 cases of chikungunya in 134 municipalities, with incidence rates higher than the national average in provinces such as Guantánamo, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba, Pinar del Río, and Artemisa.
Meanwhile, many Cubans continue to suffer the aftereffects of the virus with chronic joint pain, fatigue, and other persistent symptoms.
Health authorities acknowledged that in Matanzas, more than 60% of patients seek rehabilitation treatments or traditional medicine three months after infection.
