Luis Orlando Olivero Serrano, coordinator of the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti, informed the press about the complex conditions in which they are working to assist the victims of the earthquake in the south of that country.

Mario Sabines Lorenzo, governor of the province of Matanzas, emphasized the need for daily screening of close contacts of COVID-19 cases as one of the ways to provide early care to potential patients.

The general director of the Cuban Finlay Vaccine Institute Vicente Verez Bencomo said that preliminary results of the clinical trial on children with the Cuban candidate vaccine on children are very promising.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said today that the Cuban-made vaccines have proved to be effective against all strains of SARS-CoV-2 and remarked that they will make it possible, together with the compliance with the basic rules of self-protection, to control the pandemic in the country.

The Canadian Network in solidarity with Cuba donated over one million syringes to the island in an effort to help the fight against COVID-19.

“In my life, I have met several international medical missions, but helping save lives in my own country amidst a difficult scenario marked by COVID-19 is an immense honor,” said Doctor Israel Avila.

Cuba accumulated, at the end of August 15, 12, 070,621 doses of the vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus, and with the national vaccine Abdala.

Cuba reported today 1,912 positive cases of COVID-19 in pediatric ages, 19.6 % of those diagnosed during the day, said Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the ministry of public health(MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Cuba studied 41,023 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 9,772 positive ones. The country accumulates 7, 244,102 samples taken and 536,609 positive.

Cubans working and living in Angola sent a nearly 600- kilo shipment of aid to help fight COVID-19 on the island.

The International Course on Dengue and other arboviruses will be held from September 27 to October 1, 2021, and on this occasion, due to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be conducted, for the first time, in the virtual modality.

Cuba studied a total of 44,360 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 9,169 positive ones. The country accumulates 7, 203,079 samples taken and 526,837 positive.

Cuban medical personnel who since Saturday have been working in the areas most affected by the earthquake in Haiti have assisted more than 600 patients, Prensa Latina reported today.

Maria Guadalupe Guzman, director of research, diagnosis and reference of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, said today that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is the one that currently predominates in Cuba.