Cuba keeps the tendency to control Covid-19, when at the end of Sunday only five new cases of the disease were reported, and no deaths occurred due to this cause.

 Two children's hospitals in this city received a donation of 2,000 pounds of powdered milk and more than a hundred bottles of acetaminophen from the project Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love) and the organization Code Pink as part of the actions to help Cuba and fight the U.S. blockade.

 Cuba is holding today the Day of the Mole, an active national screening campaign aimed at raising awareness among the population about the incidence of skin cancer, increasing the perception of risk and making early diagnosis of malignant lesions.

Scientists with Havana’s Genetic Engineering and Biotech Center (CIGB) marked the second year since the start of clinical trials phase II for the candidate Vaccine Abdala, which became the first COVID-19 vaccine in Latin America.

On the occasion of World Day for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Cuban Ministry of Public Health ( MINSAP) stressed today the importance of including these diseases in the international health agenda, with a view to eradicating them.

Since 2019, professionals from different specialties of the Cuban health system have been working on a new Public Health Law, whose draft will be submitted for analysis in the first quarter of this year with workers in the sector, deputies and the population in general.

The Cuban anti-pneumococcal vaccine, Quimi-Vio, is about to apply for sanitary registration before the National Regulatory Authority, the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) reported today.

The German Bayer chemical-pharmaceutical company granted its Medical Science award to Cuban scientist Yanira Mendez Gomez.

Lung cancer is the first cause of death in men and the second in women in Pinar del Rio, followed by breast cancer, hence the western territory has consolidated the timely detection and care of patients in health institutions.

To support health services in the western province of Artemisa and the special municipality of Isle of Youth, a contingent of 27 recently graduated doctors from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the province of Granma was flagged off today in this city.

The number of new cases of Covid-19 has slightly increased in Cuba at the end of Thursday, when 18 patients with the disease were reported.

For the second day in a row, Cuba reported six new COVID-19 cases and no fatalities, as well as 23 medical discharges.

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) reported that 124 new Cuban doctors will arrive in Mexico this month, to complete a total of 616 doctors in that North American nation, Zoé Robledo, director of the IMSS, announced today.

The Business Group of the Cuban Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries (Biocubafarma) highlighted today the new clinical evidence of safety and therapeutic effect of the national vaccine HeberSaVax, which represented an achievement of science and innovation in 2022 in the country.