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.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led the daily meeting at the Revolution Palace on Wednesday afternoon, which reviewed in detail the situation with COVID-19 in Cuba, where 212 cases have been confirmed, including six deaths.

With 21 new confirmed cases, the number of people in Cuba who are positive for the new coronavirus SARS CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has reached 233, the Ministry of Public Health reported this Thursday.

With the confirmation of 26 new positive cases of the coronavirus SARS CoV-2, the number of patients with COVID-19 in Cuba has reached 212, the Ministry of Public Health reported this Wednesday.

Pedro Lazo Torres, president of the Islamic League of Cuba, died on March 31 at the age of 68, due to worsening chronic kidney failure.