Cuban health ministry ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today that 17 patients injured in the fire at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas are still hospitalized, distributed among six health institutions in the country.

A total of 8,091,354 people have additional doses against COVID-19 in Cuba, as part of the booster vaccination process, which aims to increase the levels of protection against the infection.

Cuba studied a total of 1,837 samples for surveillance, 62 of which were positive. The country accumulates 14,081,348 samples taken and 1,110,054 positive.

The first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, confirmed today that Cuba is prepared to face smallpox, after detecting the first case in the country.

The fight against COVID-19 is becoming more complex today in the province of Guantanamo, since in its 10 municipalities, at the end of the last two weeks, 76 cases were confirmed, and a rate of 15.2 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.

Cuban public health ministry ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today that 18 patients from the fire at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas remain hospitalized in six health institutions in the country.

An expert team from the Cuban Health Ministry is in the central province of Sancti Spiritus to oversee actions against the increasing spread of Dengue Fever over the past few weeks.

 Over 50,000 children of this province in the 2 to 11 age group will receive the first booster dose of the Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus.

The priority Tuesday is the work in the laboratories for the study of bone fragments and objects found, said Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, in reference to the forensic work linked to the fire in the industrial zone in Matanzas.

The Dominican foreign ministry announced that Tuesday will culminate the delivery in Cuba of a cargo of food and medicines, donated by its government for the recovery of the fire in the industrial zone of Matanzas.

A change in technology at the Abel Santamaria Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital in Pinar del Rio(westernmost province), allows the operation of about twenty new artificial kidneys in the hemodialysis service of that institution.

The vaccination process corresponding to the first booster in children aged two to 11 years began in the province of Camagüey, where a population of over 64,873 people is being attended as of today.

Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, reported today that since very early hours the work of the multidisciplinary team of specialists who carry out the expert work in the area of the fire at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas is still going on.

Cuban public health ministry (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today that 19 people injured in the fire in the industrial zone of Matanzas remain hospitalized, and the search for the remains of missing people continues.