Cuba’s permanent ambassador at UNESCO Yahima Esquivel addressed a forum on Education-Heritage and Sustainable Development.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the Cuban Neurosciences Center on Monday, a scientific institution involved in the production of necessary resources to fight SARS-Cov-2.

Cubans residing in Canada shipped some 90 kilos of medical items to Cuba to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation was received at Havana’s Julio Trigo hospital.

The National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH by its Spanish acronym) confirmed that after the passage of tropical storm Elsa through Cuba, the country's reservoirs stored 166,886 cubic hectometers, for a 72.7 % of fullness.

Cuban ambassador to UNESCO, Yahima Esquivel Moynelo, participated today in the event "Education, Heritage and Sustainable Development", which is taking place during the 44th Session of the World Heritage Committee of the specialized agency of the United Nations.

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.