The Ignacio Agramonte International Airport in the eastern Cuban province of Camaguey temporarily closed all operations starting Wednesday in tune with the most recent COVID 19 control and sanitary measures adopted by the Cuban government to contain a wave of the disease affecting the island.

Havana, Feb 3rd (ACN) The International Congress Pedagogy 2021 closed its online sessions Wednesday after participants reiterated their conviction that a better world is possible to achieve through solidarity, unity and restless struggle by all the peoples.

Polymita picta, a Cuban snail recognized as the most beautiful in the world, reached second place on the list for the title of Mollusk of the Year 2021.

Education and pandemic, a more than recurrent theme in the sessions of the International Congress ‘Pedagogy 2021’, will be addressed again today, on the final day of this meeting of educators, held online for the first time because of COVID-19.

During the virtual sessions of the China-CELAC Cooperation Forum on Digital Technology for the fight against COVID-19, Cuban Vice Minister of Communications, Ernesto Rodríguez Hernández, stressed the values of computerization in the fight against the pandemic in the Island.

Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Cuba's Minister of Education, visited on Tuesday three hospitals in Havana and one in Mayabeque to see the victims of a bus crash that happened last Saturday.

Taking into account the complex epidemiological scenario that is currently underway in the provinces of Artemisa, Mayabeque and Ciego de Avila, as well as in the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, the temporary working group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus approved on Tuesday the regression of those territories, in their entirety, to the epidemic stage in the phase of limited autochthonous transmission.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 2 (ACN) The 2021 academic year in higher education in Cuba began on Monday in several universities in the country, applying measures for the control of COVID-19.

Concentric circles and images resembling the Sun are some of the first aboriginal drawings recently discovered in a rock art site inside a cave located in a protected area known as Varahicacos, in the Varadero region, western Matanzas province.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero stressed the need to further exploit local resources to improve the people’s standards of living.

In the winter planting this year, 500 hectares (ha) of transgenic hybrid corn seed are expected to be produced, Doctor of Science Mario Pablo Estrada Garcia, director of Agricultural Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), announced.

The International Congress Pedagogia 2021 opened its virtual sessions for the first time today with the commitment, always renewed and multiplied in these hard times of pandemic, to fight for an education with all and for the good of all.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of Cuba, heads today a meeting with the main political and government authorities of the province of Ciego de Avila, with the aim of analyzing different issues of socio-economic interest for this central territory and the country.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 2 (ACN) The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) will immunize this week the group of volunteers receiving the third dose of the vaccine candidate Mambisa (CIGB-669), while evaluating the immunology data of its short vaccination scheme.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for intensive and rigorous action to deal with the local COVID 19 wave currently hitting the country as a consequence of disregarding sanitary protocols set up for international travelers.