HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17(ACN) The goal is to keep improving the quality and professionalism of every action undertaken at our borders, right there where Cuba first defends and shows itself to the world, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said at a meeting Tuesday with the General Customs of the Republic (AGR).

The director of the Cuban Neuroscience Center, Mitchel Valdes Sosa said on Tuesday that corporate media reports on an alleged Havana syndrome are not backed by any scientific evidence.

Cuban lawmakers gathered in several parliament commissions assessed actions supporting the fight against the COVID 19 outbreak in the country and the implementation of the financial and monetary overhaul underway since January 1st.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (ACN) The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba met this Tuesday, via videoconference, from its headquarters in the National Capitol.

The construction and assembly of a second module in the water desalination plant number two in Cayo Santa Maria should be completed in the first four months of the year, which reinforces the guarantee of the liquid in the tourist destination, connected to the mainland by a 48-kilometer-long causeway.

The members of the Permanent Working Commission on Attention to Local Bodies of the National Assembly of People's Power agreed that the authorities of each municipality must join efforts in the fight against COVID-19.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today the commitment of the people and government of the country to defeat the COVID-19.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked on his official Twitter account those who care for children suffering from cancer, on the occasion of Monday's commemoration of International Children's Cancer Day.

Cuba’s representative to the First Regular Session of the UN-Women Executive Board, Ana Silvia Rodriguez said that her country keeps advancing genre equality in a favorable manner and she denounced that the US blockade of the island nation violates the human rights of the Cuban people, including women and young girls.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called on every citizen to keep a responsible behavior in the face of increasing COVID 19 cases in the country.

Faced with the complex epidemiological scenario, local authorities in the municipalities must join efforts to address COVID-19 as a priority, and continue boosting the implementation of the policies approved in the country. That is why the deputies, in their place of residence, follow and supervise each key process for the socio-economic development that the nation has projected.

Rudy Monzón Rodríguez, an intensive care specialist from the city of Cienfuegos who became infected with COVID-19 and was until recently in critical condition, gave a thousand thanks to his colleagues for saving his life and all the support he received from well-wishers.

The rush of modern society, the attachment to new technologies and the conflicts the world is going through have all but made us forget the silent language that flowers have had since time immemorial, known as floriography.

On February 16, 1903, in an intimate ceremony at the Government Palace in front of long-faced Cuban officials and exultant U.S. diplomats, President Tomás Estrada Palma signed the agreement to lease Guantánamo Bay as a naval base for as long as necessary, thus beginning more than a century of affront to Cuba's national sovereignty marked by the Platt Amendment, imposed on the Cuban Constituent Assembly by the U.S. government, who blackmailed the Island by stating that only after the acceptance of the amendment as an appendix to the Cuban Constitution would the Yankee troops be withdrawn.

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, recalled today that on February 14, 1976, Leandro Sandrino Izquierdo, a MINREX worker on an internationalist mission in Angolan lands, fell in combat.