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.

Authorities of Cubana de Aviacion airline assured on Monday in Havana that flights to Spain will continue despite the suspension of the Bank Settlement Plam (BSP) payment compensation mechanism in that European market.

The Official Gazette No. 92 Ordinary of 2021 published today a new package of legal regulations to regulate telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICT) and the use of the radioelectric spectrum in Cuba.

Cuban Communication Minister Mayra Arevich said that the island’s Constitution condemns the use of cyberspace with subversive and destabilizing aims against the nations.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stressed the efforts and role of the island’s biotech sector to guarantee the necessary doses of the locally developed vaccines against COVID-19 to immunize all the people.

Cuba is closely following the development of tropical depression Grace and its movement to the south of eastern provinces as specialists expect the storm to gain in organization and strength over the next hours.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) also reaffirmed its support to the letter of Cuban scientists in response to U.S. President Joe Biden, for his misleading statements on the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.