A monoclonal antibody created in Cuba, Itolizumaben shows encouraging results today in treating Covid-19 patients in the country, where there is a wide range of effective drugs to fight against the pandemic.
The number of patients recovered from Covid-19 in Cuba amounted to 309 with another 24 new medical discharges, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday.
The national plan currently in force to fight the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be more efficient if the US blockade does not exist and if citizens had greater responsibility, President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated on Tuesday.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has described Tuesday the ‘continuing lies’ by Admiral Craig Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command on Cuba´s alleged links to drug trafficking, as a serious danger to the region.
Cuba today has the necessary resources to face Covid-19, even in the worst case scenario, despite the United States bloc, Francisco Durán, director of the Ministry of Public Health, reiterated today.
At the close of yesterday, April 20, 2 thousand 279 patients are admitted to hospitals for epidemiological clinical surveillance. Another 7,337 people are monitored in their homes from Primary Health Care.
Hundreds of people in Florida, USA, flocked to the beaches this weekend after the governor gave the green light to open some spas despite the critical epidemiological situation in that nation, which exceeds 26,000 confirmed cases in that state.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, said during a press conference that the worst is to come regarding the pandemic and criticized countries that have minimized measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
At the meeting of the temporary group for the prevention and control of COVID-19, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel referred to the country’s priorities in combating the disease, including clarifying details in the approach to local transmission events to cut off the spread.
