Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the Cuban public health ministry, reported today that Cuba presented during the most recent week an increase in the indicators associated with the COVID-19.

Cuba studied a total of 36,833 samples to detect new cases of COVID 19, with 3,306 positive. The country accumulates 12,254,107 samples taken and 1,002,499 positive.

A Summer School in face-to-face format begins today between colleagues from the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF) and the Goethe University Frankfurt (GU Frankfurt), from Germany.

A tribute to the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro, who on January 15, 60 years ago, foresaw Cuba’s remarkable scientific results, marked the beginning Saturday of the celebrations for Cuban Science Day in Havana’s Scientific-Technological Park at the University of Informatic Sciences with praise for the contributions of the Commander in Chief, who instilled in those professionals a revolutionary and humanist ethics committed to the future and sovereignty of the homeland.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today on Twitter the progress of the anti-COVID-19 vaccination in the country, which has been completed in 87.2 % of the population.

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.