Archivo de March, 2020
23 March, 2020 Cuba confronts Covid-19 at airports

Cuban Airport and Aeronautical Services Enterprise S.A. along with the Ministry of Public Health have been intensifying the measures to face the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, at Cuba’s air terminals, deputy director Liset Urgelles said.
23 March, 2020 BioCubaFarma updates plan of action against Covid-19

The president of Cuban business group BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martinez reported that the board and scientists of that institution reviewed on Monday the plan of the pharmaceutical sector to deal with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, causing Covid-19.
23 March, 2020 Cuban president highlights humanistic practice of Revolution

Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday highlighted the island’s international healthcare collaboration as a humanistic practice of the Revolution. The president posted this expression on Twitter accompanied by hashtags #CubaSalva, #SomosCuba and #SomosContinuidad. Diaz-Canel shared an article by Granma newspaper that summarizes the Cuban government’s decision to send or strengthen medical brigades in […]
20 March, 2020 Venezuela Receives Tests for Covid-19

Venezuela’s Executive Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez received more than 4,000 tests from China, as well as medicines and reagents needed, to address the health contingency for the new coronavirus.
20 March, 2020 More than a Thousand Died in Spain by Covid-19

The technical spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simon confirmed that Spain has just surpassed the figure of one thousand deaths due to the new coronavirus.
20 March, 2020 Russian Scientists Decipher Genome of New Coronavirus

Specialists from the Smorodintsev Institute for Influenza Research from the Russian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that they sequenced the first complete genome of the new coronavirus, from the material of a sick patient.
20 March, 2020 Cuba without Transmission of Covid-19

So far there is no transmission of Covid-19 in Cuba, but international health control and epidemiological surveillance are strengthened to prevent its spread, according to Dr. Francisco Duran, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health.
20 March, 2020 Cuba Sends Medical Brigades to Suriname and Grenada

This Friday contingents who will serve in Suriname and Grenada were bidden farewell, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, reported on his Twitter account.
20 March, 2020 Cuban Medical Brigade on Solidarity Mission to Italy

The Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba, Rodrigo Malmierca, confirmed this Friday the arrival in the next hours in Italy of a brigade of health collaborators in solidarity mission with this country.
20 March, 2020 Syria expresses solidarity with Cuba facing US blockade

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has expressed solidarity with Cuba on Thursday facing the US-imposed blockade and sanctions, and considered they hinder efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic known as SARS-Cov-2.
20 March, 2020 Cuba, United Kingdom fight COVID-19 together, FM says

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Thursday highlighted the coordinated work carried out by Cuba and the United Kingdom for the return of the passengers of the cruise ship MS Braemar, with five confirmed cases of the new coronavirus known as SARS-Cov-2.
20 March, 2020 Cuba dismisses for the moment closure of its borders

The Cuban health authorities insisted today that until now the closure of the border is not a prudent measure, taking into account the level of introduction and transmission of the Covid-19 currently registered in the country.
20 March, 2020 Covid-19 cases reported throughout Latin America, except in Haiti

Except for Haiti, until this Thursday all Latin American countries have officially reported positive cases to Covid-19, a disease declared a pandemic by the WHO. The Latin American map of the spread of the outbreak shows 103 new cases in Chile, where the figure rose to 342, while Colombia confirmed another six positive cases, for a total of 108.