A Cuban medical brigade from the Henry Reeve contingent will leave for the Bahamas to offer their solidarity assistance in the confrontation with COVID-19, the Ministry of Public Health announced today.

Cuba studied a total of 44,510 samples for surveillance during the day, resulting positive 3,336. The country accumulates 12, 134,551 samples taken and 992,125 positive.

The Economic Society of Friends of the Country (SEAP by its Spanish acronym) will award today for the first time its PRO PATRIA Prize to outstanding scientific groups in stopping the pandemic of the novel coronavirus in Cuba.

Nearly 10 million citizens have completed their COVID-19 vaccination scheme in Cuba, some 87.1 percent of the over 11-million population, according to the island’s Health Ministry.

Cuba reported today 3,387 new COVID-19 cases, 2,372 hospital discharges and one fatality.

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), highlighted the work done by Cuba and its scientists to make COVID-19 vaccines fully developed and produced in Latin America.

A few days ago, media from around the world began to use words such as flurona and deltacron; the former refers to a simultaneous flu and COVID-19 infection recorded in Israel, and the latter to the combined version of the Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 strains, discovered in Cyprus.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted today on Twitter the approval of a first financing to Cuba by the Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (Central American Bank for Economic Integration) amounting to 46.7 million euros to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines.

Cuba reported today 2,788 new COVID-19 cases, 1,913 hospital discharges and no fatalities.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today on Twitter the widespread inequity regarding the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world, as only 9.5% percent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose against the disease.

The strategic response of the Revolutionary Government and its scientists to the COVID-19 pandemic took center stage in the consultative work of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) in 2021.

In accordance with the development of the application of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 Abdala vaccine booster in the province of Matanzas, more than 300, 000 doses have been administered so far in the territory, Lissy Vega Rodriguez, in charge of the immunization, exclusively told Cuban News Agency.

Cuba studied a total of 35,815 samples for surveillance during the day, 2,685 of which were positive. The country accumulates 12, 002,043 samples taken and 982,614 positive.

With the delivery to the province of Holguin of 500, 000 doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala, the eastern territory extends the booster immunization to populations and groups at risk, as part of the priorities of the public health sector for the control of the COVID-19.