A historic moment will take place on Monday, when the first online edition of the Capablanca in Memoriam Chess Tournament will be inaugurated.
The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 17 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 1,783 positive cases across the island.
Of 180 children who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Cuba and have remained stable with no complications, 126 have already recovered and discharged from hospital, so they are now under epidemiological surveillance at home, health authorities said on Saturday.
This Friday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel evoked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Celia Sanchez, an outstanding revolutionary, political and researcher combatant.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel insisted on the need to comply with the social isolation measures, to maintain the favorable scenario the country shows to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The governor of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, received on Thursday the Cuban ambassador to Italy, Jose Carlos Rodriguez, to whom he emphasized the island’s help in fighting Covid-19 in that territory.
Democratic congressmen Barbara Lee and Karen Bass have strongly condemned the recent armed attack against the Cuban embassy in Washington, on which the United States Government has still not officially made any pronouncement to date.
For the sixth consecutive day, the number of recoveries from Covid-19 exceeds active cases, and now rises to 1,031, detailed this Thursday the Ministry of Public Health. Active cases reach 623 today, 615 of these patients, representing 98.7 percent present a stable clinical evolution, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology, indicated on his daily press briefing.
To eliminate its possible civil liability for apparent violations of Cuba’s Asset Control Regulations, U.S. company BIOMIN America, Inc. paid more than $250,000 to U.S. authorities.
