Developed in 1986 by a team of researchers from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), human recombinant Interferon Alfa 2B has benefited thousands of Cuban patients since its introduction into the national health system, and is one of the drugs currently used to combat the new coronavirus COVID-19.

Representatives of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board signed in Geneva, Switzerland, an agreement for the implementation of a first collaborative project with Cuban agriculture.

Francisco Duran, national director of epidemiology at the Cuban ministry of public health, spoke this morning at the morning TV show Buenos Dias to report on the three confirmed cases of the new Coronavirus Covid-19 in Cuba.

The Jamaican government asked Cuba for around 100 nurses to help local intensive care units (ICUs) in treating the most serious cases of COVID-19, the Jamaica Observer journal reported.

Cuba now has a Science, Technology and Innovation Observatory (OCTI), reported this Wednesday the Master in Science Ceferino Julio Santaren Suarez, director general of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information, leading the design of the project led by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym).

Cuba is equipped with the necessary laboratory network and resources for the diagnosis of the coronavirus COVID-19, a disease which has killed more than 3,823 people and infected 106,112 worldwide.

Health hearings on the coronavirus and the danger it represents will begin to be developed from today in workplaces throughout Cuba.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced today on Twitter some of the consequences for the world's population caused by the suspension of Cuba's medical cooperation in several countries around the world.

The use of HeberFeron, a drug created and produced by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), in Havana, has spread throughout the country by opening more centers in different municipalities.

Interferon alpha 2B, a Cuban drug used in China for coronavirus treatment, will be exhibited at the Cuba exhibition in Mexico, to be held in this country from next March 4-6.

Cuba is the only country in the world that since 1961 has been holding annual polio vaccination campaigns, which have allowed under 72-year-old population to be protected against the disease, experts from the ministry of public health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) said in Havana.

Jan Louis Betlem, regional director of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project, held a meeting with experts from the Center for Environmental Studies of Cienfuegos (CEAC by its Spanish acronym), in central Cuba.

Cuban public health minister Jose Angel Portal highlighted his country's achievements in the application of cochlear implants, as part of the celebration of World Cochlear Implant Day.

Cuba remains free of suspected or confirmed coronavirus cases, which already affect 30 countries, Cuban ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) officials told the press today.