The more than 53,000 workers of the Cuban Electrical Industry, despite the shortages and limitations, make an enormous sacrifice to keep the vitality of electricity generation, said the secretary general of the National Union of Energy and Mines Workers, George Batista Perez.

A donation from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with supplies to support the response to COVID-19, will arrive in Cuba in the coming days, the regional office of that entity reported on Twitter.

Doctor Álvaro Acosta Salerno, born in Holguín and raised in Santiago, is known by many patients as "Durán", because of his gray hair and ease of communication that make him look like the National Director of Hygiene and Epidemiology responsible for the daily COVID-19 briefings.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of Cuba, thanked today the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for the donation of 800, 000 syringes for the vaccination against COVID-19.

On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Ministry of Higher Education (MES by its Spanish acronym), Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated the professors, workers and students of that educational level, and said that the future of the Homeland also lies in the universities.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, congratulated today on Twitter the people and government of Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.

Two sensitive measures that confirm the Cuban state’s willingness to take into account public opinion come into force today: the granting of a ration book to those who are temporarily away from their provinces, and the permission for natural persons to import, duty-free, any amount of food, toiletries and medicines.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez thanked the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) for the donation to Cuba of 800 thousand syringes with needles to face the COVID-19.

At 9:33 pm on Sunday, July 18, 2021, the network of Cuban National Seismological Service stations recorded an earthquake reported as perceptible, located at coordinates 19.693 degrees north latitude and -75.484 degrees west longitude, with a depth of 16.3 km.

Deputy Yolanda Ferrer Gómez, president of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power, condemned the interference statements issued by MEP David McAllister.

"We are going to put our hearts into Cuba, together we can, because Cuba is love, peace and solidarity," said President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who headed this morning, together with Army General Raúl Castro and other Party and government leaders, an act of revolutionary reaffirmation and condemnation of interference attempts against the country.

The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Army General Raúl Castro led this morning an act of revolutionary reaffirmation in the esplanade of the Piragua, in this capital, where hundreds of Cubans gathered in support of the government and the Revolution.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry denounced on Friday that its official website www.minrex.gob.cu was the target of a cyber-attack since July 11 followiong the riots occurred in several Cuban cities.

Cuban prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz called to continue reviewing and updating the Cuban medical protocols for the confrontation of the COVID-19, in view of its current national and international behavior.

The United States has failed in its efforts to destroy Cuba despite having wasted billions of dollars to achieve it, said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, today.