Cuba ysterday confirmed 1,844 positive COVID-19 cases and 21 deaths from complications associated with the disease.

The positive cases on Monday are 353 less than Sunday’s numbers.

The communist-ruled Caribbean state has registered 936,809 diagnosed as well as 8,079 fatalities since March 11, 2020.

The numbers were disclosed by Francisco Durán, national head of the National Institute of Tropical Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health, in his usual morning television conference.

He disclosed that some 24,352 people remain hospitalsed, of them 14,375 suspects, 1,716 under epidemiological surveillance and 8,261 down with the active virus, a high number still.

However, the numbers are gradually decreasing for over a month now, the doctor pointed out.