Of the total of new SARS-CoV-2 infections, 895 are due to autochthonous transmission and 869 were related to confirmed cases.

Havana increased the number of confirmed daily cases by 211 with respect to the previous day, with a great dispersion in its 15 municipalities. Two of the four deceased of the day lived here; the rest in Granma and Artemisa.

Havana’s ambassador in Paramaribo announced this “possibility” during a meeting with the leader of the National Party (NPS), Gregory Rusland, on the challenges posed by the new coronavirus pandemic and the global economic crisis for both countries.

The Cubans were traveling from Tuxpan to the Cuban Consulate located in the city of Boca del Río, after they had allegedly been summoned, according to their fellow students at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), who reported the disappearance.

The versatile musician and singer will share the stage with other prominent Cuban artists such as Dafnis Prieto and Julio Montalvo at the Global Cuba Fest, which will take place on March 6.

The decrease in people in the beach resorts has made it possible to carry out work with large machinery and dumping of sand on beaches of important tourist destinations such as Varadero, declared the director of the Commercial Division of Coastal Engineering of the company Inversiones Gamma S.A., Ernesto Tristá.

Havana continues to be the province where transmission is greatest. The territory remains in the lead by incidence rate, followed by Mayabeque, Pinar del Río, Santiago de Cuba, the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud and Guantánamo.

Sanitary authorities explained in the daily report on the situation of the coronavirus epidemic on the island that yesterday 19,234 patients were hospitalized, of which 11,992 were under epidemiological surveillance, 3,083 suspect and 4,159 active cases of the contagious disease.

The island maintains a complex epidemiological situation awaiting vaccines

It will enter into force ninety days after its publication in the Gaceta Oficial de la República.

In the Travellers’ Choice 2021 Best of the Best ranking, organized by the digital website, Cayo Santamaría was evaluated as the second on the planet, only behind Whitehaven Beach in Australia, while Varadero beach resort ranked twelfth.

The president of BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martínez, announced this Wednesday on his Twitter account the start of the manufacturing at Aica laboratories of a batch of the vaccine.

As has been the trend, most of the cases are due to autochthonous transmission (854) and, of the total, 830 were related to confirmed cases.

A city council resolution of the so-called Windy City urges the United States Congress to pass legislation that ends the embargo and asks President Joe Biden to annul the measures adopted by the Donald Trump administration against the island.

Next April 12, it will be two years since the kidnapping in the African nation of Cuban doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez by alleged members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group.

The state telecommunications monopoly also disclosed that 189,000 clients have the Nauta Hogar home internet service. However, it is a “still discreet figure if one takes into account that it represents only 4.89%.”

The general director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Dr. Vicente Vérez, affirmed that this Cuban vaccine candidate has demonstrated a “high degree of safety and reliability” in the preceding trials.

On March 1, 1996, Clinton issued the emergency declaration, which was relaxed, although maintained, by the Executive of President Barack Obama, despite having reestablished relations with Havana in 2014.

Daily COVID-19 cases drop to 670, discharges reached 906 patients; but again four deaths were reported.

The deputy chief of the Cuban medical mission in the Venezuelan capital, Rodolfo Pérez, specified that more than 630 Cuban professionals will be immunized with the drug in the region, where two vaccination points have been installed.

New infections due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba fell to 699, according to the report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), where yesterday’s 924 discharges were notified, as well as four new deaths, three of them from Havana. Of the total infections, 685 are due to autochthonous transmission, and 666 of the COVID-19 patients were contacts of confirmed cases. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1364593484280324099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364593484280324099%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-descienden-los-contagios-aumentan-las-altas%2F Imported cases rose slightly to 14, mostly due to travelers from Russia, the United States, and Panama. Eight foreigners were also diagnosed with the pandemic on the island. Havana once again reports the highest number of infections, 395, followed by Pinar del Río (60), Santiago de Cuba (52), and Camagüey (41), although all provinces, including the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, reported positive cases. By incidence rates, 12 Cuban municipalities were responsible for 52.2% of the transmission in the last two weeks, most of them in the capital, which leads this statistic with 313.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. The deceased of the day: three women, from Havana; a man from Camagüey. Their ages ranged from 51 to 89 years. Now the pandemic’s death toll on the island stands at 308. As of midnight on Tuesday,...

The Cuban flag has been flying at half-mast since early Monday morning at the Cuban Embassy in Washington as a tribute to the 500,000 Americans who died from COVID-19, their families, and the American people, the state newspaper Granma reported. Cuban ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera had said on Twitter that it is a gesture of solidarity. https://twitter.com/lianystr/status/1364057851711410177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364057851711410177%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba-ee-uu%2Fcuba-rinde-homenaje-a-victimas-del-coronavirus-en-estados-unidos%2F The gesture corresponds to a statement issued on February 22, when U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the American flag to be flown at half-mast at the White House and on all public buildings and properties, in all military spheres, naval posts, and stations, and on all Federal Government warships in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its territories and possessions until sunset on February 26, 2021. “More Americans have died in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined,” said Biden, adding that he and First Lady Jill Biden would observe a minute’s silence alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1363983909495705603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1363983909495705603%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba-ee-uu%2Fcuba-rinde-homenaje-a-victimas-del-coronavirus-en-estados-unidos%2F The gesture is not by chance. According to Granma, Cuba was one of the first nations to condemn the terrorist attack of September 11, 2011, on the...

A private project in the eastern province of Las Tunas is venturing into obtaining plastic wood, emerging as another novel proposal that seeks greater ecological and financial sustainability, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency reported. Registered and marketed by Mario González Bahamonde, Plásticos Bahamonde was created about a year ago and owes its origin to the interest of its founder to substitute raw materials, such as metal and wood, in the construction of furniture, a job he has been doing for more than 20 years. González Bahamonde learned about plastic wood through the Internet, so he set out to manufacture an extruder, the industrial machine in charge of processing polymers by “pressing, melting, molding, pressing and pushing the materials to obtain a new mold.” “I have been achieving the mixture for a year to obtain this type of wood from plastic,” he added. PHOTO: YACIEL PEÑA DE LA PEÑA/ACN Speaking to ACN, González Bahamonde said that the raw material is supplied by the Raw Materials Enterprise in Las Tunas. In addition to being its creator, Plásticos Bahamonde, a geologist by profession, employs almost 10 professionals: technicians, economists, publicists and personnel directly linked to production. Because of its results, during...

According to a report by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency, in February Cuba registered the highest number of cases diagnosed with COVID-19 in pediatric ages: a total of 1,984, which exceeds by more than 2,000 those reported at the close of last month. However, no patient of those ages has died from coronavirus, but contracting the disease is a high risk, since many of these children suffer from chronic diseases. “The cornerstone lies in the early stratification of the patient in order to avoid serious forms of the disease or death,” Dr. Randy Grillo Fortún, first-degree specialist in Pediatrics and head of this specialty at the Frank País Hospital, told the ACN.  He explained that when a minor with COVID-19 arrives at the hospital, the first thing to do is classify him as asymptomatic or symptomatic and consider the risk factors. If he is asymptomatic, he said, only the use of Interferon is required; but otherwise, a more exhaustive analysis is needed, that is, a classification by pediatric evaluation triangle, determine the level of severity, focus on the alteration of the organ that may be involved and obtain the results of complementary tests. Based on these tests,...

The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported 836 new infections and four deaths in Cuba due to the coronavirus during the last 24 hours. The latest report says that there were 942 discharges, so the number of active cases decreased to 4,858. Of the total cases, 824 were due to autochthonous transmission and 797 were contacts of confirmed cases. All the provinces reported patients with COVID-19, although the highest number is still reported by Havana, with 452 yesterday, when all its municipalities had positive cases. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1364231982587260930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364231982587260930%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-mas-altas-que-nuevos-contagios-pero-la-situacion-sigue-siendo-preocupante%2F   The situation is more complicated in La Lisa, Old Havana, Centro Habana and Cotorro, four of the nine Havana municipalities that, together with one from Guantánamo and another from Mayabeque, account for 42.2% of the transmission in the last two weeks. The capital continues to lead in incidence rates, with 309 per 100,000 inhabitants. They are followed by Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba, with rates of 170.1 and 144.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively. Three of the deceased also resided in the capital; the fourth in Mayabeque: three men, one woman, all aged between 72 and 88 years. With these deaths, the pandemic leaves 304 fatalities on the island; 88 so far in February....