The 86.7 % of the Cuban population has already completed the anti-COVID-19 vaccination program, with the national immunogens Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.

Cuba studied a total of 37,980 samples for surveillance during the day, resulting positive 1,946. The country accumulates 11, 836,693 samples taken and 972,513 were positive.

Cuba continues advancing in the administration of national anti-COVID-19 vaccines, and by the end of January 4, 30, 925,470 doses of Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala had been administered in the country.

Cuba keeps advancing the mass administration of locally developed COVID-19 vaccines with 30 million 925 thousand 470 doses up to January 4th.

As of Thursday, no COVID-19 positive patient in the province of Pinar del Río will remain homebound, as decided during a meeting of the temporary working group for the fight against the disease in a region where the number of cases has been on the rise lately.

Israel Velázquez Batista, top health authority in the Isle of Youth, called local residents to be more aware of the epidemic and to see a doctor at once if they have any symptom of the disease, currently on an upward trend in this municipality.

The National Day of Cuban Science will be marked January 15 with a central ceremony in this city capital; the announcement was made Wednesday by the Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Elba Rosa Perez.

New measures for international sanitary control against the spread of COVID-19 become effective today in Cuba, in view of the rise in the number of cases and the high transmissibility of the Omicron strain, already detected in the country.

Cuba reported today 967 new COVID-19 cases, 537 hospital discharges and no fatalities.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel praised today on Twitter the progress of the COVID-19 booster vaccine, already administered to more than two million Cubans.

Government and health authorities in the province of Santiago de Cuba launched on Tuesday new restrictive measures in response to the spread of the Omicron strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, which has been detected in 12 Cuban provinces.

On the occasion of the celebration today of the Day of the Hygienist and Epidemiologist in Cuba, the health minister, José Angel Portal Miranda, acknowledged the commitment of these professionals to public health in the country.

A total of 2,190,530 people have received anti-COVID-19 booster doses, as part of Cuba's strategy to guarantee the population the highest levels of protection against the disease.

Cuba studied a total of 18,310 samples for surveillance during the day, resulting positive 673. The country accumulates 11, 749,504 samples taken and 968,171 were positive.