The Cuban Embassy in the United States will suspend all face-to-face consular services at the Consular Office in Washington starting this Tuesday, due to the National Emergency Statement, issued on March 13 by the White House Government.
“We cannot say that in Cuba there is transmission of Covid-19, because those infected are imported or people with close contacts with patients from abroad,” Francisco Duran, director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health explained in the Roundtable TV program.
Cuba’s Ministry of Education (MINED) is currently improving some measures in schools to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 without suspending the current school year.
The Cuban Institute of Cultural Research Juan Marinello announced on Monday the postponement of the international events scheduled to take place in April and May, as part of the prevention and confrontation measures of the Covid-19.
Cuba’s forest cover grew by 0.26 percent in 2019, thanks to the increase of some 27,200 hectares, official sources reported Monday.
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported on Monday the critical state of one of the four patients confirmed with Covid-19 disease in this country, who are admitted to the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK).
People who were in contact with the only Cuban-born patient infested with Covid-19, a native of this central province, remain asymptomatic along with another group of foreigners.
