Cuba received on Friday the first batch of the 120 thousand syringe and needle kits donated by Cubans living in Panama and friends of the island, in order to support the mass vaccination against Covid-19.

Since March 11, 2020, when COVID-19 was introduced in Cuba, 500 people have died due to this disease, which in recent months has become difficult to control in the third outbreak affecting 190 countries in the world.

Fear does not hinder the willingness of young doctor Eddy Leonardo Perez, another health professional proud to be again in the Red Zone to fight COVID-19, the pandemic that has taken so many human lives.

Lebanon's acting health minister Hamad Hassan informed the Cuban ambassador to that Asian nation, Alexander Pellicer, about his country's interest in the clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed in Cuba.

The phase II clinical trial of the Soberana Plus vaccine candidate in convalescents will be divided into two stages, explained Dr. Arturo Chang Monteagudo, principal investigator of the study at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology.

The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) will be able to produce vaccine candidates against original strains of SARS-CoV-2 and mutants starting this month, announced on Thursday Dr. Miladys Limonta Fernandez, coordinator of vaccine candidate development projects of the institution.

A virtual Cuba-Germany business forum held on Wednesday focused on opportunities for cooperation in the area of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Cuba reported on Tuesday 959 new positive cases and eleven deaths as a result of COVID-19.

Mambisa, a vaccine candidate developed by the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), is one of the five nasal vaccines in the world now in the stage of clinical trial, CIGB director Marta Ayala Avila told the daily Granma.

The five Cuban COVID-19 candidate vaccines have proven to be safe from the scientific, methodological and ethical perpectives, while an ethic committee endorses the quality of research and guarantees the protection of the rights and wellbeing of the volunteers involved in current vaccination trials.

For the world, including Cuba, COVID-19 continues being a major health problem that has not been controlled, considering the number of contagions and deaths that this pandemic has caused for more than a year.

Cuban health minister, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, recognized today the country's psychology professionals, on the occasion of the National Day of this specialty.

Cuba studied 21,399 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,060 positive ones. The country accumulates 3, 256,543 samples taken and 88,445 positive.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stressed the assistance of all physically challenged persons on the island, while in today’s world those citizens face lots of difficulties.