The Cuban Center for the Control of Drugs and Medical Equipment, CECMED, has approved the first clinical trial with a locally developed COVID-19 candidate vaccine on the pediatric population.

Cuba's representative to the United Nations Permanent Office in Austria, Marlen Redondo, acknowledged on Wednesday the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the fight against COVID-19.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported that by the end of June 7, 2,946,572 doses of Cuban vaccine candidates had been administered in the country, as part of the development strategy of these bioproducts.

The ophthalmological effects of COVID-19 and the basis for its transmission through the eyes are revealed in a study by Cuban scientists, published in the Journal of Biomedical Research.

Despite the permanent and ever-increasing siege of the United States started nearly 60 years ago, ten products of Cuban science have been awarded the Gold Medal of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 1989.

For Dr. Alejandro Fernández Alpízar, who is now offering his services at an isolation center in the province of Ciego de Avila, he will remember COVID-19 for the rest of his life because it has changed the end to his student days and the beginning of his professional ones.

The third and last group of health professionals of the Henry Reeve Contingent medical brigade in Kuwait returned to the country after treating 101,290 patients and supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Kuwait.

 A study on the geographical distribution by age groups and trends in the severity of COVID-19 in Cuba during the first four months of 2021, revealed that the behavior of indicators such as incidence, mortality, the percentage of severe of the total number of confirmed cases and the case fatality rate varies in all provinces of the country.

Cuba studied 22,511 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,156 positive ones. The country accumulates 4, 506,965 samples taken and 151,259 positive.

The third phase of the health intervention to population groups and territories at risk with the Abdala vaccine candidate against COVID-19 begins today in Villa Clara, which will complete the immunization process around 40, 000 people.

A thousand 185 new positive cases of COVID-19 were detected on Sunday in Cuba, for a total of 150,103 people diagnosed with the disease since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country on March 11, 2020, the ministry of public health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today.

Cuba studied 20,992 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,185 positive ones. The country accumulates 4, 484,454 samples taken and 150,103 positive.

The Swedish campaign to support vaccination in Cuba against COVID-19 provided around 18,000 euros in its first three weeks, said today Zoltan Tiroler, president of the Swedish-Cuban solidarity association.

In the last 15 days 17,300 people have been diagnosed in Cuba with the virus causing the COVID-19, 96.3 % of them due to autochthonous transmission, still strong and that despite the efforts has not been controlled in the country, informed today the Cuban ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).