A delegation from the Ministry of Public Health of Belarus visited Havana’s Capitol Building, seat of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), where they were received by Dr. Cristina Luna Morales, chair of the Assembly's Health and Sports Commission.

José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, celebrated today the Day of the Cuban pharmaceutical worker, a date that commemorates the birth of Antonio Guiteras Holmes (1906-1935), one of the first professionals in that branch in the country.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported that at the end of November 19, 30 patients were admitted, 22 were suspected and 8 were confirmed active.

Cuba’s Health Ministry called on the people to keep up COVID-19 precaution measures as year’s end massive festivities approach.

Cuban health ministry ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported that at the end of Monday, two samples were positive out of the 935 taken for the control and surveillance of the COVID-19 virus.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, recalled today the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM by its Spanish acronym) by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.

Cuban minister of public health, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, exchanged today in Algeria with the directors of the Cuban medical mission in that country, where the island's international collaboration in that sector began 59 years ago.

Cuba thanked the International Red Cross after the arrival in the island of a large donation for the victims of Hurricane Ian that created havoc last September leaving tens of thousands house destroyed and three dead in its wake.

On its 30th anniversary, to be celebrated on November 19, the Institute of Plant Biotechnology (IBP) of the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas (UCLV), in central Cuba, is committed to strengthening science for plant development in Cuba.

Doctors Jose Angel Portal Miranda and Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh, health ministers of Cuba and Djibouti respectively expressed their willingness to further strengthen cooperation links in the health sector, particularly in the areas of biotechnology, training of specialists and professional collaboration.

During the early morning the tropical storm Lisa has continued to gain some more organization and intensity and became a hurricane, Cuban meteorological institute reported today.

Cuba reported at the end of yesterday a single positive case of SARS-CoV-2, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today in its usual daily report.

Updated clinical evidence ratifying the effectiveness of the Cuban COVID-19 vaccines Abdala and Soberana was presented Tuesday at the regular meeting of the government with health experts and scientists, in which Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez described both products as "a milestone of Cuban medicine, biopharmaceutical industry and health system and of the Revolution".

A group of international experts, led by US scientists, highlighted Cuba's capacity to immunize more than 90 % of the population with its own safe and effective vaccines.