The National Committee of the Young Communist League elected Aylín Álvarez García as the new first secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League (UJC), according to Juventud Rebelde newspaper.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted on Tuesday on Twitter the government's actions to control the COVID-19 in the Cuban central province of Ciego de Avila, that is having the worst numbers of COVID cases on the island .

Recent food donations from friendly nations benefit 28 thousand families in the Isle of Youth, a special municipality south of western Cuba.

Cuban Energy and Mines Minister Nicolas Arronte stressed the need to encourage the use of renewable energy sources through incentives, tariff and Tax benefits.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez thanked today on Twitter the people, Party and Government of China for the donation of 30 lung ventilators that recently arrived in the island.

We are doing this work to put an end to the pandemic, the faster it happens the sooner we will get ahead, said José Antonio Huerta González, one of the private sector drivers who voluntarily participates along with health personnel in the fight against COVID-19.

Health collaborators, solidarity friends from Jamaica and Cuban residents in that country sent on Sunday the first batch of donations with syringes, needles, masks, cannulas and disinfectants necessary for the fight against the COVID-19 in Santiago de Cuba.

A Bolivian Air force Plane landed Friday at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport with some 20 tons of humanitarian aid for the Cuban people following a recent announcement of the supportive action by President Luis Arce.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced on his Twitter account the meeting on Friday between US President Joe Biden and a group of individuals who favor the annexation of Cuba to the US and he called it a farce.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, Cuban president, expressed his gratitude today for the increased solidarity with the country in the midst of the difficult times we are living through.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel described as slander the new statement by Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, who failed to call by name the U.S. blockade and supported the riots promoted by the United States on July 11.

The Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) announced this Thursday a 20 percent discount in internet rates and also a 60 percent in text messages (SMS).

The gradual and free delivery to the Cuban population of food sent by friendly nations will begin this Friday in several municipalities, on a day in which new donations of food and sanitary material to face the COVID pandemic and the impact of the U.S. blockade are also expected to arrive in Cuba.

The National Office of Tax Administration (ONAT by its Spanish acronym) reported today that the security problems that forced to shut down the Tax Portal since last July 22, due to a cyber-attack, have been solved.

 Eugenio Gonzalez Perez, Cuban deputy minister of education, announced that the restart of the teaching phase will take place in the country on September 6 in person, if the conditions imposed by the COVID-19 epidemic allow it.