Cuba studied 22,779 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1057 positive ones. The country accumulates 4, 015,883 samples taken and 125,511 positive.

 Over 440 thousand people had been vaccinated in Cuba, as of May 15, as part of the health intervention initiated in recent days with Cuban vaccine candidates throughout the national territory.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of COVID-19, has killed 150 people in Cuba so far in May, up to the end of May 15, bringing the total number of deaths since the introduction of the pandemic in March last year to 804 deaths due to complications of the disease.

Specialists and technicians from the Cuban Electronics, Informatics, Automation and Communications Industry Group (Gelect by its Spanish acronym) are working on a project to reuse neonatal incubators that have been discontinued due to electrical problems and whose replacement is limited by the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade.

The ongoing health intervention in Havana with the Cuban COVID-19 candidate vaccine Abdala is flowing as expected said public health vice-director in the capital city Nilda Roca.

Cuba reported on Thursday 138 new COVID-19 pediatric patients below 18 years of age, which takes the total number of infected children during the pandemic to 15 thousand 720, with 846 of them below 12 months of age.

 Cuba and Mongolia held a business forum in the sector of health and biotechnology said the vice-president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, Ruben Ramos on his Twitter account on Thursday.

The Pan-American Health Organization –PAHO—included in a recent report on the fight on COVID-19 Cuba’s Center of Drugs, Medical Equipment and Devises as one of the national regulatory authorities with good experience on the issue.

 The first days of the mass vaccination campaign in Havana with the local COVID-19 candidate vaccine named Abdala, have showed no adverse effects in the involved citizens.

Some 70 thousand Cubans have been immunized with a local COVID-19 candidate vaccine named ABDALA as part of an ongoing health intervention which kicked off on Monday involving health workers, medical students and employees with BioCubaFarma Biotech conglomerate.

Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization and Cadre Policy of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, stated his recognition of all nurses on their Day.

Come May 14, the Cuban vaccine candidate Abdala will be administered in tourism centers across this province as a sanitary intervention, Dr. Aristides Garcia Herrera, supervisor of the process started today in local hospitals and polyclinics, told to media.

Professionals of this province of Matanzas will represent Cuba in the III International Congress of Forensic Odontology and Criminal Investigation, held online from Peru to promote exchange among lecturers from more than a dozen nations.

A Cuban scientific delegate, Dr. Ricardo Casate Fernandez, director of Science and Innovation of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT), is participating in an online meeting on Open Science—a project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).