Dr. Francisco Duran, director of Epidemiology of MINSAP, stressed that those 47 new positive cases were the result of 4.054 tests carried out on Monday, with a total of 305.657 tests since March 11.

The Association of Cubans in the Netherlands (ACH) completed this month filling a container with medical aid for the island, an initiative marked by love and solidarity, Francisco Manuel Freyre, one of its organizers, said on Monday.

The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 93 new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 3,046 positive cases across the island.

For the purpose of stimulating works of the genre with high aesthetic quality and humanistic content, the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists, the Italian Recreational and Cultural Association , the Union Magazine and the Italo Calvino Foundation Group, call for the 2020 Italo Calvino Prize in homage to the famous Italian writer, born in 1923 in Santiago de Las Vegas.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported today 65 new cases with Covid-19 (the highest number in the last three months) for a cumulative number of 2,953, and the number of deaths continued in 88.

As daily counts of new COVID-19 cases continued to tick upwards in Havana city this week, authorities ordered a reopening rollback, and as of Saturday morning, the capital was reverting to stricter shutdown rules to ward-off the resurgence of the disease.

During the daily press briefing held Saturday morning in Havana, the Cuban Minister of Public Health Dr. José Angel Portal Miranda joined Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.

Cuba’s temporary working group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus approved Thursday several measures to address the occurrence of local transmission events in the western part of the country.