Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today on Twitter the effects of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on the procurement of medicines for pharmacies, hospitals and health centers in the country and described the unilateral policy that Washington has reinforced in times of COVID-19 as an obstacle to the acquisition of essential consumables and drugs whose suppliers and the banks they work with are the object of threats and reprisals.

Non-state management forms in Cuba have so far signed 1,987 contracts with state enterprises aimed at facilitating the export and import of goods and services.

Cuba, due to its control of the COVID-19 pandemic, is a guarantee for tourism in the region, said Angel Sanchez, director of operations of the hotel chain Roc Hotels, for the Caribbean region, at the Roc Arenas Doradas, in this resort city, to the press.
It is obvious that if there is a country that s outstanding in the management of the epidemic at world level it is Cuba, the incidence of cases is not significant if compared with neighboring countries and outside the environment, he said.

With the approval of the trading company Ferromar S.A. as a user of the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), this productive and logistics platform located in western Cuba strengthens its transportation services.

Ivis Fernández Peña, delegate of the Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) in the Cuban province of Matanzas, said that the Russian tourists shows high levels of satisfaction with the services and biosafety standards in this seaside resort city.

In Cuba, more than 91 % of the 60, 099 assemblies planned in the political process of information and presentation of the Plan of the economy and the Budget, which is in its final phase of implementation, have already been held.

Representatives of South Africa and Cuba ratified through a videoconference the validity of the Agreement on Cooperation in Water Resources Management and Water Supply, signed on February 6, 2020, Prensa Latina news agency reported in a dispatch dated in Pretoria.

With the aim of boosting bilateral commercial and economic relations between Cuba and the United Arab Emirates, the chambers of Commerce of both nations signed an MOU Thursday.

With the arrival today of the Royal Flight airline flight from Moscow, which restarted operations through the Juan G. Gomez International Airport, the Russian market shows its preference for Cuba's largest sun and beach resort despite the global pandemic.

Cuba and Slovakia agreed to further boost bilateral economic and commercial relations particularly in priority areas for both nations.

Cuba has increased its production capacity of domestic sanitizing and antibacterial alcohol gel, with the aim of helping to protect the population against COVID-19.

The U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba causes significant losses in the transport system. In the March 2019-May 2020 period alone, the sector suffered damages worth USD 312,027, 430.

The Cuban government decided to reduce the rates for the payment of water and electricity services for Cuban agricultural producers, retroactively as of January 2021, with the aim of contributing to the reduction of costs in food production
Meisi Bolaños Weiss, Minister of Finance and Prices, explained this measure is included within the transformations assumed immediately by the country's leadership to also stimulate compliance with delivery and contracting plans, in a context of adverse conditions imposed by the COVID-19.

Diorgys Hernández Díaz, general director of Industrial Policy of the Ministry of Food Industry (MINAL), reported that the first non-commercial productions in the process of starting up the production lines of Nescor S.A. were already carried out.