Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, condemned today the new sanctions announced by the administration of U.S. president Joseph Biden against Cuban officers.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, visited this morning the Havana neighborhood of La Guinera, located in Arroyo Naranjo municipality, the Presidency reported on Twitter.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on Twitter today that, 106 years after his physical disappearance, Finlay has been paid the most beautiful tribute by the heirs of his work with the encouraging results of the children's vaccine, in reference to the information provided by Vicente Vérez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, on the promising preliminary results of the clinical trials with Soberana Pediatría.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed today on Twitter that by next week almost one million more people in another 22 municipalities will be vaccinated with Abdala and Soberana, which means that more than three million Cubans will have received all the doses as our industry is working at full speed to produce the necessary quantities to immunize the entire population.

The Institute of Meteorology reports in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 18 that, in the early morning, Hurricane Grace has been tracking a course close to the west, with a slight decrease in the extent of cloudy and rainy areas near its center of circulation.

Grace became the second hurricane of the current season after increasing maximum wind speed to 120 kilometers per hour on Wednesday, the Cuban Meteorology Institute reported.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Wednesday that Cuba uses innovation to wage a battle for life in facing the coronavirus causing COVID-19.

Cuba keeps in motion its anti-Covid-19 vaccination process and has administered 12,225,378 doses of the vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus and of the national vaccine Abdala until August 16, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
To date, 4,854,330 Cubans have received at least one dose, whereas 4,323,115 of them have already received two and 3,047,933 all three of them.

Over 3,400 university students, young professors and professionals from various sectors have joined the Youth Social Work Brigades (BJTS), an initiative of the Young Communist League (UJC) intended to pinpoint people’s concerns to make improvements in their neighborhoods, based on visiting households to learn about their main problems and family life.

The Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) will reach its 60th anniversary in the midst of the pandemic with the commitment to keep its 9th Congress alive, José Manuel Espino, leader of the organization in the province of Matanzas, told ACN.

The Institute of Meteorology reports in its Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 14 that in the early morning tropical storm Grace has continued to intensify and now has maximum sustained winds of 100 km/h. Its minimum pressure has decreased to 998 hPa as it approached the Cayman Islands in the western Caribbean Sea and is still heading west, now at 26 km/h.

Lawmakers from the Cuban Parliament Permanent Working Commissions and Havana’s top Provincial Government officials considered experiences and actions to jointly strengthen the prevention and fight on COVID-19 in the city capital and in the rest of the country.

Cuba issued Resolution 105, a legal norm on cyber-security to protect the integrity of the individuals and their on-line information.

Resolution 105 National Action Model for the response to cybersecurity incidents, published today in the Official Gazette No. 92 Ordinary of 2021, establishes for the first time in the country the legal basis for classifying incidents in that area.

Correos de Cuba Business Group and the General Customs of the Republic adopted strategies and actions to speed up the operational and processing processes of international shipments arriving in the country, Granma newspaper reported.