In view of the new COVID-19 outbreak in Cuba, as a consequence of the increase of imported and local cases, it is necessary to strengthen the care and protection during holidays at the end and beginning of the year, in order to reduce infections, said today Francisco Duran, national director of epidemiology.

Cuba will maintain the subsidy of 46 % of the medicines sold in pharmacies, 162 out of the 353 that are provided by this way, and will keep its current price after the beginning of the monetary order process.

"We are counting on you so that we can continue achieving success in 2021," Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said on Tuesday during a visit to the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), where he was updated on the progress made in the two COVID-19 vaccine candidates being developed there.

President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez made his third visit to the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), where he praised the work of the researchers of that institution, mostly women, in whom, he said, is the expression of the country.

Cuba studied 14, 767 samples to detect COVID 19, reporting 167 new positive ones. The country accumulated 1,448,906 tests carried out and a total of 11,601 positive in the country.

The Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM), in Havana, which belongs to the business group BioCubaFarma, prioritized this year the confrontation to the COVID-19 pandemic, besides fulfilling its mission of obtaining and producing new biopharmaceuticals to treat cancer and other chronic noncommunicable diseases.

The dozen of Cuban medical brigades recently arrived in Panama will be deployed to the places assigned to fight Covid-19.

The increase in new cases of Covid-19 in Cuba with a source of infection abroad keeps today authorities and experts alert, who insist on family discipline as essential to stop the expansion.

The Cuban medical brigade that faced Covid-19 in Kenya returned home after six months working with health personnel from the African nation, Granma newspaper reported.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, a Labor Party politician, became the twelfth British MP to officially nominate Cuba's Henry Reeve medical brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) reported.

Cuban collaborators of the Henry Reeve Contingent, who for six months worked in Sierra Leone in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, returned to the their homeland on Wednesday.

For the first time in the history of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent, one of its brigades will arrive this Thursday in Panama, after the government of that country requested Cuban health assistance in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Younger people are suffering from increasing numbers of cerebro-vascular diseases and perhaps toxic habits and stress can contribute to this, Javier Sanchez Lopez, a second-degree specialist in neurology, told the Cuban News Agency.

Cuban scientific community, in order to face COVID-19, bets on every possibility of triumphs, challenges every enigma and even the logic of times. Now people listen to Cuban scientists in their efforts to shorten the duration of researches, something that can only be achieved with a lot of work. This is how Cuba, with the imperial hand on its neck, deprived of multiple resources, has made and continues to make leaps in science, which will go down in history as unquestionable feats.