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.

A total of 455,908 people have been immunized with one or more doses of the anti-COVID-19 Abdala and Soberana 02 vaccine candidates, developed in Cuba, through health intervention in territories and risk groups, the ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today.

Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, said today on Twitter that the health intervention with the Cuban anti-COVID-19 candidate, Abdala, is progressing satisfactorily.

Cuba studied 21,995 samples, resulting in 1,244 positive ones. The country accumulates 4, 037,878 samples taken and 126,755 positive.

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.