Cuba keeps the HIV/Aids transmission under control at times when the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic, said the head of the Cuban Program for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Hepatitis, Manuel Romero.

With more than 400 research, development and innovation projects for products and services intended to replace imports and achieve technological sovereignty in key sectors such as health, BioCubaFarma has become a high-impact business organization in the country.

Cuba continues administering anti-COVID-19 vaccines and a total of 8,679,636 people have already completed their vaccination scheme, which represents 77.6 % of the Cuban population.

Cuba studied a total of 15,237 samples for surveillance during the day, resulting in 243 positive results. The country accumulates 10, 831,678 samples taken and 959,307 positive.

From today until next Wednesday, anti-COVID-19 booster doses will be applied in Cuba to health workers and groups of interest at risk, informed today Dr. Lena Lopez Ambron, national head of the vaccination program of the ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Determining the impact of climate change on coastal aboriginal sites is among the objectives of a project developed by specialists of the Central-Eastern Department of Archeology in the province of Holguin, as part of the programs for the preservation of the national identity.

Cuba studied a total of 19,065 samples to detect COVID 19, with 326 positive results. The country accumulates 10, 816,441 samples taken and 959,064 positive.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported that at the end of this Saturday 6,714 patients had been admitted, 4,744 were suspected, 220 were under surveillance and 1,750 were active and confirmed.

Cuba studied a total of 18,720 samples for surveillance during the day, resulting in 362 positive results. The country accumulates 10, 757,182 samples taken and 958,097 positive.

From today until next Sunday, some 45,000 2 to 10-year-old children will complete the anti-COVID-19 vaccination program in the Cuban province of Matanzas, according to a meeting of the temporary working group in the western Cuban territory.

Cuban experts with the Neuroscience Center and the Cuban Imageneology Society are involved in a project aimed at improving the performance of Thorax X-rays and Computerized Axial Tomography Scan to diagnose and follow up on patients positive to COVID-19, through the administration of artificial intelligence.

Cuba reported today 403 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths, and 711 medical discharges.

Vicente Vérez Bencomo, General Director of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), will receive today the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in Chemical Sciences in a ceremony at the Main Lecture Hall of the University of Havana (UH).

Researchers in the province of Holguin received on Wednesday the Awards of the National Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC) in recognition of the integration of their work into the socioeconomic sphere.