Since the outbreak of COVID-19, youth in this province responded to the call of the Provincial Defense Council and the Young Communist League (UJC) to cooperate with various impact tasks, with emphasis on the fight against the pandemic in communities and in hospital red zones.

Cuba studied 18,060 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 838 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,281,712 samples taken and 45,361 positive.

On February 22, when the 60th Polio Vaccination Campaign begins throughout Cuba, local resident Milagros Ramos recalls the day in 1962 when her son, who was then two years old, received the first dose of this medication, as part of the Cuban Revolution's efforts to eliminate contagious childhood diseases.

The arrival of COVID-19 to planet Earth marked a before and after in the history of mankind by breaking the apparent peacefulness of daily life and changing the lives of human beings who have become a guerrilla force in the front line of the war against the disease.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted on his Twitter account the progress in the large-scale production of the vaccine candidate Soberana 02 against COVID-19, although he warned that "the good news should not make us lower our guard".
Soberana 02 is already being produced on a large scale at Biocen, a scientific institution of BioCubaFarma with 30 years of experience in vaccine production, the president wrote on the social network.

With the Molecular Biology Laboratory inaugurated on Sunday in Guantánamo, the country increased its capacity to carry out daily tests of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in real time, and its easternmost province the autonomy to carry them out without depending on Santiago de Cuba.

So far this year, more than 1,400 patients have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 at the Frank Pais International Orthopedic Scientific Center, one of the health institutions in Havana that has adapted its services to provide care for patients with COVID-19.

Cuba registered today five deaths due to COVID-19, for a total of 71 deaths in February, the highest figure ever reported in a month in the country.

Cuba studied 17,949 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 859 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,228,351 samples taken and 42,547 positive.

The daily numbers of COVID-19 positive people in Cuba do not go down. The upward trend in recent months continues to be confirmed every day and this Thursday was no exception: 923 cases, 887 of them with source of infection in the national territory.

Olga Lidia Tapia, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, together with Eduardo Martínez, president of BioCubaFarma, checked the progress of the investment process of the new Biotechnological Complex in the Special Development Zone (ZED) Mariel, in Artemisa.

Cuba is affected by a high COVID-19 transmission rate, as Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), announced 923 new cases of infection, with the cities of Havana and Santiago de Cuba at the top of the list (461 and 117, respectively, in the last 24 hours).

Azan Villalona, 62, did not hesitate to volunteer for the clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate known as Abdala, saying that he learned from a friend that they were calling for people with certain health conditions and decided to apply, thinking of his two grandchildren and all other children and old people in Cuba and the world at risk of becoming infected.

 “As a young doctor in training, I am happy that the authorities trust us in the fight against COVID-19 in view of the current difficult epidemiological situation of this city,” said Alexis Giraldo Araujo, political secretary of a Young Communist League Committee at the University of Medical Sciences (UCM), where first-year students are helping at an isolation center for suspected cases.