“The new date for holding it will be notified in a timely manner,” said a statement from the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR).

With the inauguration of the laboratory in the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, samples from this territory will no longer have to be taken to Havana to be analyzed.

According to Ruslan Concepción’s family, he was detained at the airport when he was preparing to travel to Russia, after border agents considered that the money he was traveling with did not come from a legal source.

In his daily press conference, Dr. Francisco Durán referred to the subject again and warned of the need to understand that “there has been a change in the behavior of the disease. Now the virus is more aggressive.”

Of the new infections, the majority (1,052) are due to autochthonous transmission, 1,032 were contacts of confirmed cases, while there were 31 imported cases.

The Cuban family caravans are a wave that is spreading throughout the world.

The start of the trials in Iran began with an official ceremony at the University of Medical Sciences of the city of Isfahan in central Iran, with the presence of Minister of Health Said Namaki and with the vaccination of four volunteers.

938 new cases and six deaths in the day. 1,227 discharges. April accumulates 26,175 infections and is, therefore, the worst month for the island in terms of this record during almost 14 months of confrontation with the disease.

The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported 10 deaths and 1,185 SARS-CoV-2 virus infections this Saturday. April, paraphrasing the poet Eliot and taking into account the number of deaths, is now the cruelest month for Cuba in its fight against the pandemic.

In recent weeks, both the Paraguayan Executive and the Legislature began contacting the Cuban authorities with the intention of being able to access the vaccines developed on the island, once they pass the trial phases and obtain the corresponding authorization.

The head of the National Department of Primary Health Care of the MINSAP, María Elena Soto, explained that the vaccination was designed by population strata and will begin with people 60 years of age and over.

In addition, the number of deaths from the disease on the island rose to 581, with 12 reported at the end of this Friday, which confirms the rise in mortality from COVID-19 in the country in the current month of April.

A food donation, sent by the Russian Federation through the World Food Program (WFP), was received this Thursday in Havana during a ceremony at the Distribution Freight Center of the Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN). The donation includes 253 tons of oil and 430 of wheat flour. It will benefit more than 77,000 people who attend the Family Attention System (SAF) centers throughout the country on a daily basis. The reception ceremony was attended, among others, by the Russian ambassador to Cuba, Andrei A. Guskov; Grisel Ávila Díaz, MINCIN deputy minister; and Carlos Fidel Martín, director of International Economic Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX). The Russian diplomat said that this aid is a reflection of the relations of friendship and solidarity that unite both nations and peoples, and stressed that in the course of 2021 it is expected that the solidarity shipment of other products to Cuba will continue. For her part, Ávila Díaz thanked the Russian people and government for the donation, which will go to the elderly and other people seen to by social security in Cuba.

During his speech at the 27th Iberian-American Summit in Andorra, held virtually, the island’s president stated that Cuba “has experiences to show” and attaches “special importance” to the theme of the event, which on this occasion was “Innovation for Sustainable Development – ​​2030 Goals. Iberian-America in the face of the coronavirus challenge.”

The event will be held November 16-21 at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, “and its competitive nature will help find talented performers and composers on the island,” according to Jorge Luis Robaina, general artistic director of the event.

The 12 deaths reported this day represent the second-highest figure after the one reported on the 17th.

The island’s beauty emerges in any of its places and cities, in the greenery of its nature and the warmth of its people.

With these deaths, there are 547 fatalities from the pandemic in 13 months; 122 have been in April.

The alarming figures registered in 2021 contrast with the reports of the previous year, when 110 pregnant and postpartum women were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2.

Meanwhile, Roberto Morales Ojeda, who was serving as deputy prime minister, was released from his post due to “his transition to professional activity in the Communist Party of Cuba,” according to an official note.

The seven deceased, five women and two men, aged between 54 and 79 years, and from Matanzas, Havana and Granma, increasing to 538 the deaths caused by the pandemic in Cuba.

Díaz-Canel, the island’s president for three years, was elected to succeed Castro, who had already confirmed his intention to leave his post at the head of the PCC during the opening of the 8th Congress of the political organization, which culminated this Monday in Havana.

Air connections between Moscow and Cuba’s main sun and beach destination were officially reestablished this Sunday, with a flight from AZUR Air airline that brought a bit over 500 Russian tourists.

While in Cuba the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is taking place, which involves the political farewell of Raúl Castro, documents were released about a plot to fake an accident on a flight between Prague and Havana and another linked to the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

The number of deaths decreased compared to what had been happening in previous days, although six deaths were reported on Sunday.