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Cuban entrepreneurs develop computer app to improve treatment on COVID-19 patients

The leader of the venture, Deivi Carmona, explained that the software will allow the creation of a central repository of infected patients’ chest X-rays, and will allow the development of artificial intelligence methods that improve the quality of the image and the extraction of information from it, in addition to recognizing the quantification and classification of lesions.

Artists and activists in front of the Ministry of Culture headquarters on November 27, 2020. Photo: Ismael Francisco/AP.

Cuban activists ask government for authorization to carry out “peaceful and civic” march

Playwright Yunior García Aguilera, one of the most visible faces among the artists who on last November 27 gathered outside the Cuban Ministry of Culture, this Tuesday made public a request to demonstrate peacefully, signed by a group of “about twenty citizens” and handed over to the government of Havana. “The march will be against violence, to demand that all the rights of all Cubans be respected, for the release of political prisoners and for the solution of our differences through democratic and peaceful means,” read the letter shared on social media. https://twitter.com/ArchipielagoCu/status/1440698822141775876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440698822141775876%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Factivistas-cubanos-solicitan-al-gobierno-autorizacion-para-marcha-pacifica-y-civica%2F The call, released on the Facebook Archipiélago group, created by Yunior himself, is addressed to the provincial and municipal authorities of the Cuban capital and explains that the “peaceful and civic” mobilization would be held from 2:00 a.m. in the afternoon of Saturday, November 20 and would have an estimated attendance of 5,000 people. However, one of the requests of the letter is that anyone who is interested and complies with the call can join. In addition, it requests that the government protect the protesters from those who try to prevent the mobilization, as well as allowing coverage by the national and foreign press, official or independent....

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