Cubans from different provinces of the country expressed their support for the words of the President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to defend the Revolution in the streets.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic denounced today in this capital the campaigns encouraged by mercenaries to provoke a social uprise in Cuba and called on all revolutionaries to confront these provocations in the streets.

The brigade of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Situations of Disasters and Serious Epidemics, which was in Azerbaijan, returned on Thursday to Cuba after contributing to the confrontation of the COVID-19 pandemic in that Eurasian nation.

A total of 574 Cubans have been returned to the country so far this year by immigration authorities from other countries, a consequence of irregular immigration encouraged by the United States, said today Colonel Mario Menéndez Mayedo, head of the Directorate of Identification and Aliens of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint).

The importer-exporter company of pharmaceutical goods and services, Farmacuba, and the Chinese Embassy in Cuba signed today a contract for the donation to the Caribbean nation of a videoconferencing system.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla highlighted today on Twitter the labor and wage guarantees implemented in the island to protect the workers and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic and stressed that, by contrast, 255 million full-time jobs were lost in this period around the world, four times more than in the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

During his visit to the municipality of San Miguel del Padrón, in this capital, Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa talked with authorities and representatives of the state and non-state business sector about the present difficulties and prospects of local development.

At a meeting Wednesday of the temporary working group for the fight against COVID-19 in the province of Mayabeque, Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz insisted on the need to review the pandemic control plans and a stricter enforcement of the health protocols to improve the present situation.

Although the learning channels officially said goodbye last Friday, the province of Pinar del Rio will be the first to put the end, on July 23, to a whole period of intense struggle to ensure the continuity of the 2020-2021 school year despite the COVID-19 scourge.

Since the end of 2020, more than 12,950 minors in Cuba have received their ID cards in the new polycarbonate format, a process started in the capital city and then extended to the rest of the country, giving priority to cases of newborn babies and changes of address.

The Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Confrontation Group of the University of Moa, in the province of Holguin, prioritizes research to identify regional vulnerabilities and prevent natural disasters in eastern Cuba.

In its daily briefing, the Havana Temporary Government Working Team insisted in the need to strengthen sanitary and safety measures against the current COVID-19 spread, after and increase in the virus’ incidence rate over the past few days.

Cuban President and top Communist Party leader Miguel Diaz-Canel is in the south central province of Cienfuegos to learn about the current COVID-19 spread in that territory.

In the midst of the pandemic, as the summer vacation period draws near, the construction of the first daycare center in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, a long-awaited event among local working mothers, is receiving a major boost today, so that the new facility raises to 40 the number of such centers in the province.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described on Twitter today the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade as an undeniable economic war of extraterritorial scope against a small country and wondered what would be the social and political effects of subjecting other economies, including those of rich countries, to similar conditions.