The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Army General Raul Castro, and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of that nation, Nguyen Phu Trong, held a fraternal telephone conversation after the celebration of the Thirteenth Congress of the Vietnamese political organization.

Protecting children, adolescents, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups from COVID-19 infection is everyone's responsibility, from the government and medical personnel, but it is, first and foremost, the responsibility of the Cuban family.

Cuba’s permanent representative at the United Nations Ana Silvia Rodriguez reiterated her country’s commitment to South-South cooperation to contribute to the sustainable unfolding of the least developed nations.

Guinea Bissau’s Foreign Trade and Cooperation minister Suzi Carla Barbosa ratified her government’s support of Cuba’s struggle against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade and also condemned the current discrediting campaigns against the island’s internationalist medical cooperation.

Havana’s Jose Marti International airport has seen a drastic reduction of flights from eight countries as part of measures adopted February 6 to control the current Covid 19 flare-up; however despite such reduction international sanitary controls actions are being reinforced.

The second stage of Havana’s Film Festival, the international contest, has bee put off due to the current COVID 19 outbreak hitting the capital city and the country.

Deputy prime minister Ines Maria Chapman led the review of the Tarea Vida ("Life Task"), Cuban State Plan to confront climate change, and its coordination and implementation in the country's new urban agenda.

Marino Murillo, head of the Permanent Commission for the Implementation and Development of the Guidelines in Cuba, highlighted today on Twitter the new facilities for Self-Employment (TCP by its Spanish acronym) approved by the Council of Ministers of the nation on February 6.

CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Feb 8 (ACN) The implementation as of today in the province of Camaguey of the decrees laws 30 and 31 of this year, approved in the country to punish price violations and hygienic measures against the pandemic of COVID-19, requires the due action of responsible agencies and the permanent denunciation of the population.

 The Animal Welfare Decree Law and its regulations, which are expected to be approved in Cuba this February, propose concrete actions for education, training and communication of good practices that reaffirm the country's conviction that protecting animals is preserving the future.

 The official Twitter account of the Cuban Presidency denounced today the subversion against the Cuban Revolution and assured that these actions fail to bend the will of the people, who despise those behind them and their puppets.

The woman was neither running nor flying as her feet hardly touched the ground on that winding road covered on both sides by thick vegetation. With a quick turn of her head she sees that the pursuer, knife in hand, is much closer, almost on top of her. Suddenly, something saves her: the awakening.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez urged to do the job well and raise institutional, social, family and personal awareness in order to fight COVID-19 harder and made an appeal to improve prevention and control efforts. “We can and must succeed working together,” he wrote in his Twitter account.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, thanked on his Twitter account the continuous claim of brotherly African countries for the cessation of the US blockade of Cuba and the expressions of solidarity with the Cuban people, reflected in a resolution of the XXXIV Summit of the African Union.

The following is the speech made by the prime minister of the Republic of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, via videoconference, at the Meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.