Many people are alarmed every day by the number of positive cases, the state of health of the most serious and critical cases in hospitals, or the increasing death toll in Cuba as the pandemic keeps running rampant a year after the first cases were detected in the world.

Cuban IT companies are taking the first steps in foreign trade, focused on trying to gain a foothold in a very competitive market worldwide.

Animal rights supporters met today in Havana with officials of the Ministry of Agriculture ( MINAG) at the headquarters of that institution, to learn about the Decree-Law on Animal Welfare to be approved this February.

Olga Lidia Tapia, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, reviewed today the work results and projections of the Immunoassay Center, during a visit to that institution of the country's biotechnological industry.

The reforestation of mangroves in areas of Punta Alegre, in northern Ciego de Avila, is among the actions carried out by the territory as part of the international project Building Coastal Resilience in Cuba, through natural solutions for adaptation to climate change.

During the meeting of high authorities in the agricultural field of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), the Cuban minister of the sector, Gustavo Rodriguez Rollero, ratified today his country's willingness to share experiences in the agricultural spheres and in the improvement, use and conservation of land.

The entities belonging to the Business Group of Automotive Transportation Services (GEA by its Spanish acronym) have among their priorities for this year, as complex as the previous one, the implementation of projects and services that allow the income in freely convertible currency (MLC), the use of clean energies and continue working with universities.

Given the effectiveness of the large-scale implementation of telecommuting in Cuba, some posts in this modality will be permanently in Cuba, informed Ariel Fonseca, deputy director of the Employment Directorate of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS).

The Executive Committee of the Cuban Council of Ministers approved the creation of the National Institute of Territorial Planning and Urbanism, which will assume the current Institute of Physical Planning, and will be an Agency of the Central State Administration (OACE by its Spanish acronym).

The president of the Spanish Socialist Delegation at the European Parliament, Javier Moreno and the Friendship and Solidarity Group with Cuba at the Legislative body condemned the recent blacklisting of the island as a country sponsor of international terrorism by the former Donald Trump administration.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel presided over the annual working meeting of the Communications Ministry for 2021, whose agenda emphasized the need to increase high-quality digital services for the people, cybersecurity and encourage the use of modern technologies.

With the replacement of seedbeds and crops affected by the heavy rains of tropical storm Eta last November, the province of Villa Clara concludes the sowing of tobacco (mainly in the sun) and begins its harvest, with plans to exceed the agreed 1,486 tons (t).

 What kind of life are those who invite me to forget about my people talking about? What blood, what empty pots? What doctrines? Do they really know what life is about?

 After more than 15 years of research, the Center for Industrial Biotechnology Studies (CEBI) of the University of Oriente (UO) is developing edible mushrooms for their high nutritional value and antioxidant and antitumor properties.
Mushrooms are a source of protein, dietary fiber, vitamins B and C complex, as well as minerals and secondary metabolic compounds.