Cuba studied 18,568 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 875 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,356,127 samples taken and 48,441 positive.

An epidemiological monitoring system developed by the company DATYS began to be implemented in Havana on February 15, with the purpose of ensuring that the health system and patients obtain the PCR test results in the shortest possible time.

Cuba has technological platforms, professional experience, genetic engineering and the capacity to conjugate vaccine candidates to obtain better immunogens, which is why the country is moving forward with four anti-Covid-19 vaccine projects.

The members of the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Contingent assisting the people on the Turks and Caicos Islands were honored with the prize known as Heroes of the Pandemic.

The president of Havana’s Defense Council Luis Antonio Torres Iribar urged labor center executives and workers to strengthen sanitary measures to prevent the appearance of new COVID-19 clusters that later may spread to the community.

Phase III of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Abdala will begin in the coming weeks, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the Cuban Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry Group (BioCubaFarma), announced today.

Cuban Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal Miranda said that the country is still devoted to the safe return to Cuba of internationalist doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped in Kenya on April 12, 2019.

Cuba announced the start of large-scale production of its COVID 19 candidate vaccine Abdala, after opening the mass output last week of its most advanced vaccine known as Soberana 02.

Jorge Carlos Montesinos, 23, describes himself as a better person after working for two months directly with Covid-19 patients in the red zone of a local polyclinic.

As an alternative for the early detection and containment of COVID-19, in the midst of the complex epidemiological situation here, the province of Villa Clara promotes the use of rapid antigen tests in primary health care and acute respiratory infections consultations.

Between 30% and 40% of convalescent COVID-19 patients need adjustments in their base disease once they recover from the disease, said Dr. Emilio Fidel Buchaca Faxas, president of the Cuban Society of Internal Medicine, who has studied around 80 of these patients to detect possible residual lesions caused by the virus.

Havana, Feb 23 (ACN) Over six thousand people have undergone kidney transplants in Cuba since the first such surgical proceeding was successfully carried out here on February 24, 1970.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, highlighted today on Twitter the solidarity role of Cuban medicine, whose brigades have served almost a third of the world's population in 61 years.

The vice chief of the Cuban medical mission in the Venezuelan Capital District, Rodolfo Perez, announced that the 75 members of the working brigade of the field hospital set up in the Poliedro de Caracas have already been vaccinated with the anti-COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine.