Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of Cuba, heads today a meeting with the main political and government authorities of the province of Ciego de Avila, with the aim of analyzing different issues of socio-economic interest for this central territory and the country.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 2 (ACN) The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) will immunize this week the group of volunteers receiving the third dose of the vaccine candidate Mambisa (CIGB-669), while evaluating the immunology data of its short vaccination scheme.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for intensive and rigorous action to deal with the local COVID 19 wave currently hitting the country as a consequence of disregarding sanitary protocols set up for international travelers.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz held a meeting today with the highest municipal and provincial authorities of the province of Camagüey about the local epidemiological situation and other issues of economic and social relevance.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez sent a message of congratulations to his counterpart of Nauru, Leonel Rouwen Aingimea, on the 53rd anniversary of the independence of that country and reiterated Cuba’s willingness to continue expanding the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two nations after almost 20 years of diplomatic ties.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez congratulated comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, who was re-elected as General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP).

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, stressed today the importance of gender equality in the world, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose economic effects have affected women to a greater extent.

The Center for Radiation Protection and Hygiene (CPHR), one of the institutions of the Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies Agency (AENTA), is promoting an innovative project management for this year, a step in line with the need to contribute to food safety, the fight against climate change, human health and the export of services, said Physics Engineer Gonzalo Walwyn Salas, general director of the group.

A new molecular biology laboratory was inaugurated on Sunday in the central province of Cienfuegos, as part of the national network to face the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba.

A total of 10 deaths have been reported so far as a result of a massive accident that occurred late Friday night on a stretch of road in the municipality of Güines, Mayabeque province.

On Friday morning, January 29, 2021, an aviation accident occurred when a helicopter, flying from Holguin province to Guantanamo, crashed into an mountain.

Renowned Singer and songwriter Silvio Rodriguez, founder of the Cuban New Song Movement, has joined the International Committee promoting the nomination of the island’s Henry Reeve Medical Contingent (#BrigadaHenryReeve) to the Nobel Peace Prize.

A total of 10 deaths have been reported so far as a result of a massive accident that occurred late Friday night on a stretch of road in the municipality of Güines, Mayabeque province.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met with local authorities in this eastern province on Friday to address the complex epidemiological situation of this territory as well as other priority issues for the country.

Germany’s Cuba Si Solidarity Group with that country’s Left Party sent a medical donation to Cuba to support the island’s fight against COVID 19.