Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology, warned today that in the first 23 days of May there are 236 deaths due to COVID-19, a figure higher than the 229 reported in April, the month that so far had had the highest numbers in this indicator.

This Monday, the Government Working Group for the control of the COVID-19 epidemic analyzed the situation of ten provinces that are unable to control the disease. They also reported on the Sanitary Intervention with Cuban vaccine candidates, which is going well, according to what was designed.

As part of the actions carried out by the province of Matanzas in order to create all the necessary conditions for the beginning of the sanitary intervention to the population, private drivers from all over the territory are ready to guarantee the success of the process.

Dr. Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, will speak Tuesday at the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA), to be held from today until June 1.

Cuba studied 21,259 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 1,155 positive ones. The country accumulates 4, 171,500 samples taken and 134,208 positive.

More than eight million lives have been saved and some 2.46 billion people have received the services of Cuban medical collaboration since May 23, 1963, when Cuba sent the first health brigade to the Republic of Algeria.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed the commitment of the island to the protection and conservation of the nation's natural heritage, as World Biodiversity Day is celebrated this May 22.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 22 (ACN) Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed the commitment of the island to the protection and conservation of the nation's natural heritage, as World Biodiversity Day is celebrated this May 22.
"We salute World #Biodiversity Day, with the commitment to work to safeguard the natural heritage of our country. #WeAreCuba #WeAreContinuity," the Cuban leader wrote on his official Twitter profile.
Díaz-Canel also praised Cuba's flora and fauna, which he described as "jewels of our Biological Diversity" due to their exclusivity and uniqueness.
"Richness, exclusivity and uniqueness, fragility and at the same time resilience, characterize the #flora and #fauna of #Cuba. the jewels of our Biological Diversity!" tweeted the Cuban President.
On the occasion of this celebration, he recalled the words of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, when he warned at the Earth Summit held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, that the stability of the planet depended on healthy ecosystems.
"As warned in 1992 #Fidel, scientists assure today that the stability of the planet depends on healthy and species-rich ecosystems. #PorLaNaturaleza," Díaz-Canel posted.
To protect the country's biodiversity and natural resources, the Cuban government promotes the Tarea Vida (Life Task), which constitutes the State Plan to confront climate change, based on strategies aimed at counteracting the adverse effects of climatological phenomena in vulnerable areas and protected ecosystems.
In his official message on this date, Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), called for the protection of biodiversity, which "is decreasing at an alarming and unprecedented rate, and is subject to increasingly intense pressures", according to the official website of the international organization.
Under the slogan "I am part of the solution", this year the UN calls on the international community to work to live in a much more sustainable world, with greater justice and equity, where the distribution of natural resources can reach a greater number of people.

Over 1.1 million doses of the vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and CIGB-66 (Abdala) were applied in Cuba, to date, as part of clinical trials, intervention study and health intervention in at-risk groups and territories.

Members of the Cuban medical brigade collaborating in St. Vincent and the Grenadines arrived on Thursday in Cuba after providing assistance to the national emergency in that country due to the eruption of a volcano.

With 105 studies underway, the National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center (CENCEC), attached to the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), participates in the control, design and conduction of research works currently ongoing across Cuba.

Henry Reeve, the Cuban International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, received the 2020 Excelencias Award granted by the Excelencias Group every year during the Madrid International Tourism Fair (Fitur).

The Cuban Health Network (Infomed) highlighted World Family Doctor Day, first declared by the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) in 2010.

More than 3,000 tourism workers have received the vaccine candidate Abdala as part of the sanitary intervention currently under way in the region, according to the Provincial Defense Council (CDP).

A warning for Cuban families should be the increase of cases in pediatric ages (up to 18 years) diagnosed as positive in SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which only in the last day showed a total of 234 confirmed cases, including children, adolescents and infants.