Etiqueta: pandemic
18 April, 2020 We Must Protect Us All from Covid-19

“We are facing a pandemic that means more than a health crisis, and it generates a commitment that goes beyond one person, so we all have to protect ourselves,” Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda said.

18 April, 2020 Diaz-Canel Insists on Protection of Health Personnel

The President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, insisted this Friday that “our health personnel must protect themselves and we must protect health personnel”, in the face of the threat of Covid-19, a disease that already counts in the world more than two million confirmed cases, 923 of them in Cuba.

16 April, 2020 Cuban Government Evaluates National Covid-19 Prevention and Control Plan

As every afternoon since the direct fight against Covid-19 began in Cuba, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, led on Wednesday through videoconference the meeting of the temporary working group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, of which 814 cases have already been confirmed on the island, of them 774 Cubans.

13 April, 2020 The Americas Hit by Covid-19

The Americas closed this week with more than 640,000 cases and 25,000 deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in what can be described as the toughest week for the region.

13 April, 2020 Cuban Drug to Prevent Covid-19

Biomoduline T, a biological immunomodulatory produced at the National Center for Biopreparation in Cuba, is being applied to vulnerable people preventively to combat the new coronavirus.

10 April, 2020 Decisions Cuba Makes Are to Save Lives

“Cuba has always demonstrated unity, in Revolution, and today unity goes through responsibility, to understand that responsibility and to act with that responsibility,” the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, remarked  on Thursday as he headed the meeting that every afternoon checks the situation of COVID-19 on the island.

7 April, 2020 Diaz-Canel Insists on Acting with Cooperation, Discipline and Responsibility

Faced with the complex scenario imposed on the country by COVID-19, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez confirmed on Monday afternoon the need to act with cooperation, discipline and responsibility, both by the population and by all the institutions working on the confrontation with the pandemic.

6 April, 2020 Cuba Sends Nursing Brigade to Barbados

A nursing brigade departed on Sunday from Cuba to Barbados where they will help facing Covid-19, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-Dos coronavirus.

2 April, 2020 A Battle against Covid-19, Cuban Government Priority

he President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, headed again on Wednesday’s afternoon the daily meeting that, from the Palace of the Revolution, reviews in detail the situation with Covid-19 on the island, where 212 cases have been confirmed, including six deceased.

1 April, 2020 Health Quarantine Decreed in Pinar del Rio Community

Because of the contagion with the new coronavirus of several people in Camilo Cienfuegos community, at Consolacion del Sur municipality, the Defense Council and the Ministry of Public Health decreed the quarantine for the area.

31 March, 2020 Cuba United in a Round of Applause for Its Health Heroes

Coinciding with the mythical 09:00 gunfire that identifies Havana’s best historical tradition, in all the towns of Cuba a closed popular applause was heard in support of the thousands of doctors, nurses, technicians and public health workers who fight relentlessly against Covid-19.

30 March, 2020 The World vs. Pandemic

The United States, which leads the number of coronavirus infections, has so far recorded 291 deaths, of which more than a quarter have occurred in New York State.

28 March, 2020 Cuba to UNESCO Virtual Forum on Science and Covid-19

Next Monday Cuba will participate in a virtual ministerial meeting convened by UNESCO to coordinate responses from science to the pandemic, the Permanent Mission of the island to the organization confirmed.

27 March, 2020 British PM Gives Positive to Covid-19

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he tested positive for the new Coronavirus, but said he will remain at the forefront of the national response to the pandemic.

27 March, 2020 Diaz-Canel: Before Covid-19, We All Depend on Each Other

The President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, considered this Thursday in the Palace of Revolution that to the extent that we all understand the responsibility that each of us has with the rest, we will face more efficiently the pandemic of the new coronavirus