More than 1,400 artists from the province of Holguín, including students and amateurs, will join the health intervention with the vaccine Abdala in support of the health programs designed to tackle COVID-19 transmission in the region.

The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Vicente Vérez Bencomo, announced today that Soberana 02 in its three-dose scheme with Soberana Plus booster reached an efficacy of 91.2 percent (%) against the symptomatic disease, a figure higher than the one established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunogens as effective vaccines.

A total of 6,833,720 doses have been administered in Cuba as of July 6, with Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported today.

A brigade of 17 health professionals from Santiago de Cuba will be sent to the western province of Matanzas—Cuba’s current COVID-19 epicenter—to help in the fight against the pandemic.

In view of the territorial dispersion of the new coronavirus and the increase in the speed of transmission of the Wuhan, South Africa, United Kingdom and California COVID-19 variants, health authorities in this province are working hard to stop the fourth wave of contagion.

 The new fully Cuban Umelisa SARS-COV-2 diagnostic system will be used in the province of Cienfuegos to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cuban Health Ministry announced Monday the administration up to July 4th of six million 718 thousand 887 doses of locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines.

Cuba studied 35,243 samples, resulting in 3,519 positive ones. The country accumulates 5, 332,005 samples taken and 210,913 positive.

 Cuban authorities decided to interrupt the public health intervention with locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines in some territories due to the passage of storm Elsa on the island.

Cuba reported today 21 deaths due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the highest figure since the outbreak of the pandemic here, in March 2020, and accumulated a total of 1,372 fatalities.

Cuba studied 38,826 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 3,075 positive ones. The country accumulates 5, 296,762 samples taken and 207,322 positive.

Covid-19 positive cases continue breaking records of confirmed cases after more than a year of pandemic, despite the actions issued by the Ministry of Public Health to curb the spread of the disease.

The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, highlighted today the creation of a diagnostic system to detect the COVID-19, 100 % Cuban-made.

A public health intervention with locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccines will soon benefit patients under kidney replacement therapies, peritoneal dialysis and hemo-dialysis, one of the most vulnerable population groups to unfavorable progress under the coronavirus disease.