Cuba studied 19,842 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 832 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,883,123 samples taken and 70,634 positive.

Cuba is advancing towards full technological sovereignty in the diagnosis of COVID-19, with the development of several innovative projects for the national production of biotechnology inputs and products.

Relevant Cuban sports figures were vaccinated with the anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Soberana 02, at the National Institute of Sports Medicine.

In all Intensive Care Units of Cuba, which attend COVID-19, there is medical equipment developed by Combiomed, which are vital in the monitoring of patients and life support, said Arlem Lesmes Fernandez, general director of that Havana entity.

Cuba studied 18,177 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 736 positive ones on Wednesday. The country accumulates 2,843,469 samples taken and 68,986 positive.

Disorders of adaptation, sleep, arrhythmias, hypertension, neurological and behavioral alterations are some of the sequels that are evidenced in COVID-19 convalescents in pediatric ages, said Dr. Lissette del Rosario Lopez Gonzalez, head of the Cuban national group of pediatrics of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym).

Authorities of the Cuban ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) assured that the country is in technological conditions to guarantee the necessary doses for the vaccination strategy against the COVID-19 that conceives the progressive population immunization.

By the end of August, Cuba expects that around six million people will have been vaccinated against COVID-19, based on an integral strategy that advances by strata following regulatory protocols and that contemplate vulnerability and risk until reaching a coverage that guarantees sufficient immunity of the population against the virus.

Around 22 thousand people have been immunized as part of Phase III of the clinical trial of the Soberana 02 vaccine candidate, almost half of the population foreseen in that study, said Vicente Vérez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV).

The Cuban COVID-19 candidate vaccines are a symbol of hard work of the island’s scientists, said Health Minister Jose Angel Miranda.

The just-born diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba have been infected by their fathers who live with them or visit them at home, and not by a mother-to-fetus transmission, said an expert in the field.

Cuba studied 18,162 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 774 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,825,292 samples taken and 68,250 positive.

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 23 (ACN) In addition to the measures that can be taken to control COVID-19, people's self-responsibility must continue increasing, said today in Havana Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.

In addition to the measures that can be taken to control COVID-19, people's self-responsibility must continue increasing, said today in Havana Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.