Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Wednesday night the first three cases of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in tourists from Italy.
A group of actions adopted this Tuesday in this central province, aimed at strengthening epidemiological control and surveillance in the face of the potential risk of the new coronavirus Covid-19 entering Cuba.
Cuban Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, said on Monday that so far no cases have been reported on the national territory of the coronavirus. He assured that as soon as the first case is identified, it will be informed.
Cuba has taken surveillance and control measures in all international points of access to prevent the arrival in the country of any person carrying the new COVID-19 coronavirus.
Mass organizations such as the Federation of Cuban Women and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution will participate in the training of citizens to deal with COVID-19 in Cuba, where no cases have been reported so far.
Ricardo Calderon, director of the Comprehensive Healthcare System in Guatemala, described the work of the Cuban Medical Brigade as admirable, after 21 years of uninterrupted dedication in distant places of this country.
Cuban physicians and other medical professionals and technicians are an exceptional force, President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote on his Twitter account on Monday.
Cuba exhibits this Monday one of its greatest achievements in public health by counting over 6,000 kidney transplants since February 24, 1970.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel lauded China’s huge sense of responsibility for its people and the world on Saturday, in light of the epidemic caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus.
The Cuban Minister of Public Health, Jose Angel Portal, reminded today in a message on the social network Twitter that Cuban children are protected by ’11 vaccines, of which eight are of national production.
Some of the experiences of the Cuban doctors that treated Ebola in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa, are told about was presented in the International Book Fair in Havana.
The Cuban drug Heberferon, the only one of its kind in the world, has seen excellent results in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma of the skin in this Cuban province.
A technical cooperation project between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Territorial Oncology Center (COT) in this province was launched this year to improve the quality of medical services in radiotherapy and nuclear medicine in eastern Cuba.
Cuban doctors working on the islands of Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today rejected the US smear campaign launched against Cuban health workers and reaffirmed the will to continue saving lives.
Cuba has not reported any cases of hepatitis B among people under 15 years of age since 2007, thanks to the preventive administration of the Heberbiovac HB vaccine against that disease, it was reported on Saturday.
A first group of Cuban collaborators providing health services in Ecuador returned home on Tuesday from Guayaquil, and were received by the highest authorities of this eastern province.
Rosa Mireya Cardenas, representative from Ecuador to the Andean Parliament, thanked Cuba and its health professionals on Monday for their solidarity and support in this South American nation, and in the rest of the world.
Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, welcomed back the first group of health workers who returned from Bolivia for lack of guarantees of their physical integrity, after the rightist coup in that country.
The endoscopic treatment of biliopancreatic afflictions are on the table on Tuesday at the 7th International Congress, GastroCuba 2019, starting in Havana with the participation of specialists from about 10 countries.
