Cuba and China submitted to the National Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic the first the first patent for the vaccine Pan-Corona vaccine, a recombinant type antigen, according to an announcement posted on Twitter by the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).

José Ángel Portal, Minister of Public Health (MINSAP), stressed that Cuba has no cases of monkeypox and severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children and remarked that the National Health System has surveillance procedures in place to detect these diseases as the country pays attention to the situation in the world.

Dr. Julio Guerra Izquierdo received on Tuesday the Order of the Star of Italy of the Knight Class—a distinction conferred by the Italian president Sergio Mattarella—for his work as head of the medical brigade of the Henry Reeve Contingent deployed in the city of Turin to fight COVID-19.

A liquefied petroleum gas leak occurred Tuesday at Matanzas Faustino Perez provincial hospital was controlled after the broken pipe was fully repaired, so no risks for a blast exist at all, said Yunior Exposito, head of the local team of firefighters and rescuers.

A total of 7,260,317 people in Cuba have received anti-COVID-19 booster doses, the Ministry of Public Health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today.

Cuba studied a total of 3,238 samples for surveillance during the day, and 29 were positive. The country accumulates 13,864,771 samples taken and 1,105,319 positive.

The prowess of our scientists and health personnel paved the way towards the control of COVID-19, said today on Twitter, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister.

Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym), said today on Twitter that the island joins the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the international community to commemorate World No Tobacco Day, which is celebrated every May 31.

Cuba has a plan to combat acute viral hepatitis and monkeypox, said Jose Angel Portal Miranda, minister of public health, during the informative program Mesa Redonda .

Wearing facemasks will no longer be mandatory in Cuba as of May 31st, as part of the modification of standing COVID-19 measures, as announced by Cuba’s Health authorities on Monday.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 30 (ACN) Cuba has administered, as of May 27, a total of 36,915,419 doses of Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccines, the ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today.

The Group of Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma) is advancing a strategy aimed at the production of 525 of the 849 medicines of the basic list of the National Health System.

Cuba studied a total of 4,412 samples for surveillance during the day, 32 were positive. The country accumulates 13,861,533 samples taken and 1,105,290 positive.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 29 (ACN) Doctor of Science María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado, director of the Research, Diagnosis and Reference Center of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Prize for Women in Science for her studies about dengue fever, a disease that mainly hits intertropical areas and infects 50 to 100 million people worldwide every year.