Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of epidemiology at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, reported Monday at a press conference that 525 people have recovered from COVID-19 in the country, 37.8 percent of those diagnosed.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) announced on Sunday in Havana that Cuba could reach the peak of the epidemic in the last week of May, according to calculations by a group of experts including statesmen, biostatisticians, mathematicians, epidemiologists and other professionals.

Out of the total number of confirmed patients with COVID-19 who have required intensive care and artificial respiration in Cuba, 63.8 percent have survived, above international statistics.

Twenty-four medications are used in Cuba in the treatment protocol for patients with COVID-19, five of which are produced by MedSol, a Biocubafarma laboratory company, which at the end of March had already guaranteed the entire amount needed for the most complex scenario of the disease expected in the country.

Despite the epidemiological situation facing Cuba due to SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, the Maternal and Child Health Program (PAMI by its Spanish acronym) of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) guarantees prenatal care to all pregnant women as is established in the country.

What should we properly call what we've all been doing by staying home, avoiding big meetings and keeping at least six feet away from each other to avoid COVID-19, asked the World Health Organization (WHO), based in Geneva, Switzerland.

As part of Cuba's international cooperation actions to help relieve COVID-19, a videoconference was held from the Cuban Main Medical Cooperation Unit, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban FM, said Friday.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez confirmed that his country owns trained professionals to face COVID-19 and offer its modest cooperation to other peoples.

The Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES by its Spanish acronym) announced this Thursday the postponement of the entrance exams to that educational level this year, until the health situation caused by the COVID-19 allows it.

Cuba can control a possible major epidemic caused by COVID-19 thanks to its health system and well-planned organization, Dr. Manuel Romero Placeres, director of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), said on Thursday.