Cuba is among the countries that have the necessary capacities to launch a mass production of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus (Sputnik V), declared today Kiril Dmitriev, director general of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI).

The Cuban health ministry reported 83 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus that causes COVID-19, for a total of 3,565 in the country.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez highlighted the role of Cuban medical brigades in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Velissarios Kossivakis, administrator of the Greek Team for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to the Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade, reported that they today presented the Honor Committee for that initiative.

Cuba must conclude early 2021 the clinical trials of Soberana 01, a vaccine candidate to fight Covid-19, a disease that is currently affecting the world and has killed thousands of people globally.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019) congratulated Cuban scientists for starting first stage of clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Ramin Bayramli, president of the Azerbaijani Management Union of Medical Territorial Units (TABIB), praised the work of Cuba's medical brigade alongside healthcare professionals from Baku's Hospital Number 1.

Cuba´s president Miguel Diaz-Canel exchanged with a group of scientists who work tirelessly on a vaccine against COVID-19, dangerous disease that has caused the death of more than 766,000 people worldwide, including 88 Cubans.

A group of 10 physicians of the "Henry Reeve" Specialized Contingent for Disasters and Serious Epidemics, together with same amount of doctors who will join the permanent Cuban collaboration in Eswatini, left for that country in southern Africa.

Five months after the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in the country, Cuba has a new Protocol of National Action for COVID-19, which is already in effect and will be issued this Thursday in honor of the birth of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

Cuban scientists are progressing in the search for a domestic vaccine against COVID-19, a goal that every day seems to be closer.
To achieve this goal, the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV) has played an essential role in obtaining a candidate to prevent SARS-CoV-2 and provide the country with technological sovereignty in the production and availability of this possible immunogen.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a warning against the oral use of chlorine products as a treatment for COVID-19, Infomed, Cuba's health network, published on Wednesday.

Mathematical models by Cuban experts, based on the increase in cases of COVID-19 in recent days, suggest that the disease scenario in the country will become more complex in August if protection measures are not taken quickly.

Dr. Francisco Duran, Cuba´s national director of Epidemiology, noted that a vaccine against Covid-19 would be ready in the first months of 2021.