As the province of Guantánamo makes progress with the COVID-19 vaccines and works across the board to keep improving its epidemiological situation, a package of measures of flexibilization will be implemented starting Thursday, a step not to be seen as a relaxation of biosecurity, local political and governmental authorities insist.

Cuba reported today 5,003 new positive cases of COVID-19, which reveals that the number of infections has been gradually dropping in the last four days.

“We are still committed to vaccinating the entire Cuban population before the end of the year, a challenge taken on by the whole health and science system with responsibility and complete dedication,” said Cuban Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has more than once put blood donations at risk in municipalities of the province of Ciego de Avila, voluntary contributors to this noble gesture have already reached the mark—70 donations—planned for September.

The dedication of the island's medical personnel engaged in the fight against COVID-19 will always deserve our recognition, inasmuch as they have worked nonstop for 18 months, risking their lives to look after every citizen’s health.

The Guillermo Luis Hospital in the town of Moa is one of the healthcare centers in the province of Holguin that received medical supplies donated by many countries to help Cuba fight COVID-19.

Cubans in Belgium and friends of the Caribbean island in that country are now preparing a third shipment of medical items to support the local health sector’s fight against COVID-19.

“We are making history here,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter in reference to the swift and effective COVID-19 vaccination process among Cuban children and adolescents.

At 23, Leticia de la Caridad Domínguez Montañez has seen the face of death too many times, but this, far from discouraging her, has made it clear to her that she was right when she chose to study medicine.

The Cuban Regulatory Authority CECMED authorized the clinical trials of the homegrown vaccine Soberana Plus in COVID-19 convalescent children.

Cuba is the Latin American country with the highest number of people having received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, after registering 80 percent of the 11 million population.

The 80 % of Cubans have already received at least the first dose of an anti-COVID-19 vaccine, which makes the island the Latin American country with the highest rate of population immunized at this level of the scheme.

Cuba studied a total of 42,581 samples for detecting COVID 19, with 6,009 positive results. The country accumulates 9, 466,241 samples taken and 866,808 positive.

Based on voluntary blood donations from patients convalescing from COVID-19, the AICA Laboratories Company along with the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) are developing a clinical trial with the anti-SARS-CoV-2 gamma globulin product, which showed encouraging results in Phase I in terms of safety, reduction of pulmonary lesions and viral negativization.