Customs specialists confiscated about 50 specimens at the airport in Camagüey province.

The Cuban border guard troops managed to capture the shipment of almost a ton of marijuana through the coasts of Guantánamo province.

The Ministry of Public Health reported this Saturday 1,037 new cases of coronavirus, 974 discharges and 13 deaths, with which the death toll now stands at 525, 100 of them in the month April alone.

“A change in policy toward Cuba or taking additional measures is not currently among the top foreign policy priorities of the president,” said Jen Psaki.

There was a slight decrease in infections this day. After 21,187 tests were processed in the molecular biology laboratories of the Cuban health system, 1,026 of them were positive for the virus.

A meeting of self-employed workers, non-agricultural cooperatives and executives of the state business system with representatives of the government, the Communist Party and the National Assembly of People’s Power, chaired by the President of the Republic, presented contributions and difficulties in this sector.

“Nothing compels me to make this decision, but I fervently believe in the strength and value of the example and understanding of my compatriots,” said the former president.

Of the 1,040 infections, the majority owe the disease to autochthonous transmission (1,015), 988 were contacts of confirmed cases, and the Cuban travelers who acquired the infection abroad increased to 25; 46 foreigners were diagnosed: one Italian and 45 Indians

In the last week, reports have been published of other donations to Cuba from various countries, in what appears to be a campaign to support the island for the acquisition of the necessary medical supplies to guarantee the plan to vaccinate its entire population this year.

The approval of these regulations by the Council of State aims to “continue supporting the country’s economic-social development and other priorities,” according to the official press.

The four reported deaths correspond to three women and one man residing in three municipalities in Havana and one in Matanzas.

Dr. María Guadalupe Guzmán explained that so far 11 genetic variants have been identified circulating on the island, of which five are registered worldwide.

Eleven deceased. “The increase in the levels of serious cases and critical cases expresses the need to protect vulnerable people, because the evolution is heading towards a serious torpid condition,” said Dr. Francisco Durán, visibly moved.

The so-called Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements Act (CRUISE) would repeal the current “Do Not Sail Order” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Juan González, the main adviser for Latin America to the U.S. president, assured that “I believe that those who think that the United States is now going to enter a dialogue of multiple years with Cuba don’t understand the political moment and the situation in which we are living or frankly, I would say, the disorder we inherited from the previous administration.”

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.