With the detection of 58 new positive cases of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the number of confirmed cases in Cuba with the COVID-19 climbs to 515, informed this Thursday the Ministry of Public Health, which reported three new deaths and another medical discharge.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, called on Thursday for the end of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, at a time when solidarity and cooperation must prevail to face the new coronavirus pandemic.

With the presence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the national territory and the occurrence of six local transmission events, Cuba is moving to the second phase of the National Plan for the Prevention and Control of the new coronavirus, known as the Limited Native Transmission Stage, and is reinforcing measures to curb the pandemic.

With a batch of masks, infrared thermometers and protective glasses, suits and shoes, the arrival of donations from China to Cuba began, to confront the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Havana Provincial Defense Council, headed by its president, Luis Antonio Torres Iribar, and its vice-president Reinaldo Garcia Zapata, decided on Thursday the strategy to increase the measures of social isolation of the Popular Council El Carmelo, Vedado, Plaza de la Revolucion municipality, during the meeting to review actions to confront COVID-19.

The Cuban communist party joined the international call for cooperation in fighting the COVID-19, a statement signed by 230 political parties from more than 100 countries, the Granma newspaper reported Friday.

The Cuban health ministry confirmed the study on Thursday of 803 new cases, confirming this Friday 36 new cases for COVID-19, for a total of 269 in the country.

Those involved in the evacuation of cruise ship passengers from MS Braemar are returning home healthy and with their duty accomplished, after ending this Thursday, the isolation period, Juan Carlos Garcia Granda, Cuban Minister of Tourism, states on Twitter.