The fatality rate on the island is 0.54% and the death toll now stands at 476. Of these, 51 have been reported in April, a month that in terms of infections exceeded the records in 2020, not like this year, when since January all records have been broken.

Cuban doctors Landy Rodríguez Hernández and Assel Herrera Correa were kidnapped in the city of Mandera (northeast Kenya), on the border with Somalia, the target of jihadist attacks in the past.

With 24 votes in favor, Cuba surpassed the Italian and Russian candidacies and became the first country to host the prestigious cocktail-mixing event in America.

With these deaths, the pandemic’s death toll is 467; of them, 42 are from the first 11 days of April.

The study, which will be developed at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology and at the National Center for Sex Education, aims to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of the Cuban drug.

The norm, approved on February 26 by the Cuban Council of State, regulates “the principles, duties, rules and purposes regarding the care, health and use of animals, to guarantee their well-being, with a focus on One Health,” which includes the interdependence between human and animal health.s

This is the first positive minor for the disease to die on the island. In addition, 959 new cases were reported at the end of this Saturday, with which the number of infections in April exceeded 10,000 and the total rose to 86,531 since the beginning. of the pandemic.

“We have the genes that codify for the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) variant of this mutation,” the most worrying because it decreases the neutralizing capacity of antibodies, both in convalescents and in vaccinated people, said the president of the BioCubaFarma conglomerate.

The island will be one of the 12 nations that will compete for one of the three places still available for the group stage of the main tournament of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Soccer (CONCACAF), which will take place in that U.S. city, from July 2 to 6.

At the close of Friday, 24,703 patients remained hospitalized on the island, of which 5,105 are active cases, 3,616 suspects and 15,982 are under epidemiological surveillance, Dr. Durán detailed in his daily television appearance on the epidemiological situation in Cuba.

So far only CITMATEL, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the National Center for Biopreparations and the Center for Molecular Immunology have achieved this status, although the deputy minister of CITMA said that any Cuban enterprise can aspire to the category.

A total of 1,756 contracts have been registered, of them 1,669 for imports and 87 for the export of products and services, as reported on Twitter by Vivian Herrera, director of foreign trade at MINCEX.

Most of the patients owe COVID-19 to indigenous transmission (1,009). In addition, 987 were contacts of confirmed cases and the number of imported cases decreased to eight.

After the start of the second stage of the process this Monday, more than 1,200 subjects in Havana received the second dose of Soberana 02, while another 4,000 were injected with Abdala in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma and Guantánamo.

The national director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Durán, said this Tuesday that despite the educational messages, measures and actions that have been established in the country, the perception of risk is not good, with an average of more than a thousand cases per day in April.

According to the report of the National Center for Seismological Research, it was perceptible in the city of Ciego de Ávila and the towns of Venezuela, Baraguá, Gaspar and Majagua, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, and in Florida, Camagüey.

914 infections, one deceased and 1,070 discharges on Wednesday.

The provinces with the highest number of variants and patterns are Havana, Mayabeque and Pinar del Río.

It does so eight months after its official launch, when, as reported at the time, the online registration of customers was put to the test, “with the intention that the entire foreign trade chain becomes an integrated online mechanism.”

“An alarming start of April, with a daily average of more than a thousand cases, most of them in Havana. In the next few hours there will be more drastic closure measures, as occurred in the first outbreak of COVID-19,” the Cuban president wrote.

Old Havana is at the head of the 12 municipalities that contribute 47.2% of the incidence in the last 15 days, with 733.5 per 100,000 inhabitants. Cabaiguán was added to the group, which comprises 10 other municipalities in the capital and in Bayamo. 1,012 discharges in the day. Two deceased.

Designed to present the experiences and potential of the Cuban biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sector, BioCubaFarma will have the leading role in the meeting, although it will be attended by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cimab S.A., the Finlay Vaccine Institute and the Center for State Control of Medicines, Medical Equipment and Devices.

The study will involve the participation of 1.6 million volunteers in the Cuban capital, over 18 years of age, who will receive the necessary doses of the Soberana 02 and Abdala vaccine candidates.

The works, which began last year, “focused on the intervention on the main bridge, which maintained its original image,” said the official daily Granma, which points out that the fortress’s rehabilitation “will continue during 2021” and will include its surrounding areas.

To convey the Cuban government’s rejection of the allegations made about the country in the 2020 State Department report on Human Rights.