Health

21 March, 2021 Cuba reports 796 new COVID-19 cases

Cuba’s National Director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán, reported that there were 796 new cases of COVID-19 and two deaths in the last 24 hours.

19 March, 2021 Cuba collaborates on Covid-19 vaccine projects

Cuba is collaborating with several countries on projects for the development of Covid-19 vaccines, the Cuban Business Group of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries (BioCubafarma) reported on Thursday.

19 March, 2021 Cuba takes measures to protect women in the face of Covid-19

Cuba took labor, salary, security and social assistance measures to protect the entire population, especially women, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ana Silvia Rodriguez said on Thursday at the UN.

11 March, 2021 Cuba reports 778 new Covid-19 cases

The national director of Epidemiology at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 778 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours. Dr. Duran explained in his daily press conference on television that 4,656 people with Covid-19 are hospitalized and the total number of deaths rose to 361, while the overall number of contagions in Cuba since March 2020 has reached 59,157.

11 March, 2021 Clinical trials of Cuban vaccine underway

Cuba’s Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed) has begun an inspection of the Phase III clinical trial of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate Soberana 02.

9 March, 2021 Concern of increased COVID infections in Cuban children and young peoplej

During the meeting of the Temporary Working Group for the prevention and control of the COVID epidemic, headed by the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba José Ramón Machado Ventura and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, the Cuban deputy prime minister stressed that last week Cuba, recorded the third 7-day period of dismal results regarding positive COVID-19 cases, since the pandemic was declared nearly one year ago.

24 December, 2020 Cuban doctors arrive in Panama to fight Covid-19

Ten brigades of Cuban doctors arrived in Panama on Friday morning to collaborate with the care of those infected by Covid-19, at the most critical moment of the pandemic in the country.