Archivo de March, 2021

13 March, 2021 Measures to empower women debated in Cuba

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday highlighted the analysis of measures to economically empower Cuban women and guarantee all their rights, as part of the government agenda.

13 March, 2021 Cuba’s vaccine supplements phase III in Iran

Cuba’s anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate Soberana 02 (Spanish for ‘sovereign’) is supplementing phase III of its clinical trials in Iran with the arrival of 100,000 doses in that country, BioCubaFarma announced on Friday in this capital.

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.

11 March, 2021 Serbian media highlight Cuban vaccine candidates

Numerous Serbian media today showed Cuba’s progress in developing vaccine candidates against Covid-19 called Soberana 01 and 02, Abdala, Mambisa and Soberana Plus, as well as the ongoing trials.

11 March, 2021 US money is the lubricant for campaigns against Cuba

For Cuban-American lawyer Jose Pertierra, settled in this capital, the money coming from the US government is the main ‘lubricant’ to sustain the subversive campaigns waged against Cuba.

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.

9 March, 2021 Cuba refuses to describe mercenaries as human rights defenders

Juan Antonio Quintanilla, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations (UN) Office at Geneva, rejected in this city on Monday the description of criminals and mercenaries at the service of foreign powers as human rights defenders.