As of January 1, the Cuban authorities will reduce the entry of travelers from six nations, all from the Caribbean, Central and North America, with the aim of curbing the increase in imported cases of COVID-19, as reported this Monday by Dr. Francisco Durán García, national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The measure, announced at a press conference and published on the MINSAP website, applies to personnel from the United States, Mexico, Panama, Bahamas, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, from where the highest number of imported cases is registered, 71.5 % of all positive cases detected in recent weeks, mostly corresponding to Cuban citizens. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1343570657154625536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1343570657154625536%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-cuba-reduce-vuelos-internacionales-para-frenar-aumento-de-casos-importados%2F To put this provision into practice, Cuban Civil Aeronautics authorities and the airlines involved are readjusting the details and, according to the state newspaper Granma, “as soon as the epidemiological situation allows it, the frequency of flights will be gradually restored.” In addition to reducing the entry of travelers from these nations, a negative PCR test was established as a mandatory requirement for international travelers, to be carried out 72 hours before their trip. This measure will come into force as of January 10, 2021. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-exigira-pcr-negativo-a-los-viajeros-internacionales-en-2021/ The note adds that,...

The cases related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba did not decrease in December, which has been breaking all records since the first cases were reported. The last, related to new infections, had been registered on the 23rd, but the 229 positive cases reported today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) exceed this number by twelve patients. To this figure, determined by the 136 imported, is added a new deceased with which there are already 143 fatalities due to the pandemic on the island. It is a 75-year-old Cuban living in the Havana municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, whose details can be found in the December 27 report. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1343612893569445891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1343612893569445891%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-cuba-marca-otro-record-con-229-contagios-en-una-jornada%2F On this day, 13 625 samples were processed. In addition to those who had the source of contagion abroad, 88 were contacts of confirmed cases and only in five the origin of the disease was not specified. Of the total, 82.5% were asymptomatic. Except for the Isla de la Juventud, all provinces reported COVID-19 patients today, although the territories with the highest numbers are Havana (60 cases), Matanzas (27), Santiago de Cuba (22), Guantánamo (14) and Artemisa (13). https://oncubanews.com/cuba/coronavirus-cuba-reduce-vuelos-internacionales-para-frenar-aumento-de-casos-importados/ There were 19 patients in intensive care: nine reported in...

This 2020 saw the death of Cuban personalities who marked the lives of their contemporaries in their time. Artists, writers, musicians, teachers, actors, editors and admired athletes left us in the year that is now ending, either inside or outside the island where they were born and raised. To them, our heartfelt remembrance, gratitude and tribute. January Silvia Rodríguez (ballet). Cardinal figure in the teaching of ballet in Cuba, she died in Havana. She dedicated herself to teaching this discipline from an early age. Director of the Alejo Carpentier Provincial Ballet School and teacher at the Alicia Alonso National Ballet School, as well as a dance art teacher at the Higher Institute of Art. She was trained as a teacher under the aegis of maestro Fernando Alonso, founder together with Alicia Alonso of the National Ballet of Cuba. https://oncubanews.com/cultura/danza/fallece-silvia-rodriguez-figura-esencial-en-la-ensenanza-del-ballet-en-cuba/ Serafín “Tato” Quiñones (researcher, essayist, screenwriter, editor and cultural promoter). He passed away in Havana at the age of 77. A true authority in popular religions of African origin, in particular in the knowledge and study of the Abakuá religious-cultural complex, to which he dedicated a good part of his intellectual work, specified–among other titles–in an essential one: Ecorie abakuá: cuatro...

Varadero beach resort in the province of Matanzas remains without outbreaks or cases of COVID-19, despite the increase in the country of positive cases of the new coronavirus, with a high incidence in travelers from other countries. Ivis Fernández Peña, delegate of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in the province, highlighted that this favorable situation is due to joint work by MINTUR and the Ministry of Public Health, which allows greater confidence of the island’s main tourist markets. The increase in air flow confirms these results, the official told the country’s state media, which increases the commitment to quality and biosafety levels for guests visiting the facilities in that territory. https://twitter.com/AgenciaANSA/status/1342913081278652416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1342913081278652416%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fbalneario-de-varadero-extrema-medidas-de-seguridad-ante-incremento-de-casos-de-coronavirus-en-cuba%2F Since the restart of the hotel and recreation facilities in June and until the month of November, the Matanzas province tourist destination has welcomed close to a million visitors, of them more than 69,000 foreigners, in the 21 hotels that reopened with strict sanitary protocols. At Varadero’s Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, extreme hygienic-sanitary measures are also being taken to maintain the positive pattern in the face of the increase in new cases in the world and especially on the island, registered in recent days. From physical distancing, proper...

According to the new report of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), until yesterday December 26 in Cuba there were 11,205 patients with COVID-19. 1,350 remain hospitalized, of them 1,332 with a stable clinical evolution. 142 deaths are reported, two evacuated, six were returned to their countries, there were 106 discharges, there is a total of 9,705 recovered patients (86.6%). 18 patients are in intensive care, 9 of them in critical condition and 9 in serious condition. Of the total of yesterday’s cases (167), 70 were contacts of confirmed cases, 89 with a source of infection abroad, and eight without an identified source of infection. Of the 167 cases diagnosed, 86 were female and 81 male. 74.3% (124) of the 167 positive cases were asymptomatic, there is a total of 7,326, which represents 65.4% of those confirmed to date. The 167 cases diagnosed belong to the age groups: under 20 years, 21 (12.6%); from 20 to 39 years, 60 (35.9%); from 40 to 59 years, 69 (41.3%); 60 and over, 17 (10.2%).

This December 25, Cuba registered 138 new cases of COVID-19 to exceed 11,000 patients (11,038) since the first infections were detected in March, according to the daily report of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). A total of 12,255 samples were studied during the day and 14 provinces registered positive cases for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with Havana reporting the highest number of patients with 49, followed by Matanzas with 17 and Santiago de Cuba and Mayabeque with 16. So far, 3,019 patients are hospitalized for clinical epidemiological surveillance, 731 are suspects, 998 are under surveillance, and 1,290 are confirmed. On this day, the death of an 80-year-old person, resident in the province of Cienfuegos, was reported, reaching 141 fatalities in the country. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1342875388243021826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1342875388243021826%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-rebasa-los-11-mil-pacientes-infectados-con-covid-19-con-138-nuevos-casos%2F Of the 11,038 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, 1,290 remain active, of them 1,275 with a stable clinical evolution and 15 in intensive care (seven in critical condition and eight in serious condition). The MINSAP specifies that two evacuees were reported, six returned to their countries and there were 96 medical discharges, for a total of 9 599 recovered patients. Of the 138 new patients (136 Cubans and two foreigners), 71 had a source of infection abroad, 62...

Cuba reached 1,250 active cases of COVID-19 and 140 deaths from the disease, after 183 new infections and one death were reported at the close of this Thursday. Thus, a total of 10,900 patients have already been detected since March on the island, while those recovered amounted to 9,503, with today’s 125 discharges. A total of 2,943 patients related to COVID-19 are hospitalized, of them 682 suspects and 1,011 under surveillance, in addition to the 1,250 confirmed. Of these, 1,263 present a stable clinical evolution, while six are in critical condition and eight are in serious condition, according to the most recent report from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1342529777308225536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1342529777308225536%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-cuba-llega-a-1-250-casos-activos-y-140-fallecidos%2F As for the 183 new cases, these were detected after studying 12,471 PCR samples. Of these, 173 are Cubans and 10 are foreigners, while 90 have their source of infection outside the country and 93 are autochthonous: 91 contacts of confirmed cases and two with no known source of infection. 65.0% (119) of the 183 positive cases were asymptomatic, while by age groups they were distributed as follows: 13 under 20 years, 55 between 20 to 39 years, 88 between 40 to 59 years and 27 over 60....

With the last two lawsuits directed against U.S. companies operating with the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM), there are 32 active lawsuits in U.S. courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act for properties confiscated in Cuba after 1959. According to the United States-Cuba Economic and Trade Council, a private entity that has been keeping track of the lawsuits filed since Title III of the also called Liberty Act was activated in 2019, the defendant companies are now Crowley Maritime Corporation and Seabord Marine, both based in Florida and with revenues of several billion dollars in 2019. The plaintiff in both cases is Odette Blanco de Fernández, a Cuban-American, a member of a family whose properties were expropriated in 1960 by the government that came to power after the triumph of the revolution in 1959. The Blanco Rosell brothers owned Marítima Mariel, San Ramón Sugar Mill and Azucarera Mariel, among other assets. https://oncubanews.com/cuba-ee-uu/corte-desestima-demanda-contra-american-airlines-bajo-ley-helms-burton/ On land seized from that family, and the Carranza-Bernal and Carbonell-González families, the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) was created, a project of the Cuban government to attract foreign investment, noted the United States-Cuba Economic and Trade Council, headed by John S. Kavulich. NOTIFICATIONS BEFORE FILING LAWSUITS...

Cuba for the first time exceeded the 200 new cases of COVID-19 detected in one day (217), thus registering a new record of infections in one day, the third in a week. In addition, when adding the new infections and the new discharges given this Wednesday (71), the number of active cases is now 1,194, another negative number for the island. Of these, 1,182 present a stable clinical evolution, while 12 are in intensive care: five in critical condition and seven in serious condition. In total, 2,969 patients are hospitalized for COVID-19, and the 1,194 confirmed are joined by 718 suspects and 1,057 under surveillance. The good news is that no deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, with which the fatalities of the disease remain at 139, while those recovered are already 9,378, 87.5% of all cases, according to the report of the island’s Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1342225556360880138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1342225556360880138%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-supera-por-primera-vez-los-200-casos-de-covid-19-en-un-dia%2F The 217 new patients were detected after 13,138 PCR samples were studied on the island. Of these, 102 are contacts of confirmed cases, 101 have their source of infection abroad, and in 14 it has not been possible to specify how they were infected. By sex, 101 are...

Cuban university students will collect higher amounts of money per month for stipends, loans and assistantships, in accordance with Resolution No. 108/20, of the Ministry of Higher Education (MES). Published in the Gaceta Oficial No. 87, the regulation establishes that students in the first and second years of university careers will receive 200 pesos (CUP) per month, 300 those of third and 400 those of fourth and fifth years, as part of the monetary reorganization process that will officially start on January 1st. In the case of students in sixth year of the Medicine specialty, and fifth-year Stomatology and Nursing students, the monthly stipend will be 852 Cuban pesos. That same amount will be paid to students of pedagogical sciences careers who are inserted in the teaching institutions of their respective educational levels for job and research training that is provided for in the study plans, the norm indicates. https://twitter.com/CubaMES/status/1341056989980405761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341056989980405761%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Festudiantes-cubanos-recibiran-mayores-estipendios-mensuales%2F The payment previewed for student assistants was raised to 100 pesos per month during the first year of service, 140 during the second, 180 the third, and 220 for the fourth and fifth years of assistantship. Meanwhile, for work practices, students in the day course will receive a daily amount...

The total number of positive cases for the coronavirus in Cuba reached 10,500, after a day of 116 new infections, according to official figures released by the island’s Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). At the close of this Tuesday, 3,007 patients were hospitalized, of which 1,049 are active cases, 786 suspects and another 1,172 are under surveillance, indicated the daily report of the Cuban health authorities. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1341833642881003522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341833642881003522%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcifra-total-de-positivos-al-coronavirus-en-cuba-asciende-a-10-500-tras-jornada-de-116-contagios%2F In a day without new deaths due to COVID-19, 32 of the patients diagnosed with the coronavirus were contacts of confirmed cases, 80 have a source of infection abroad and it was not possible to determine the source of contagion of 4 of the new cases detected. Of the 1,049 active cases―the highest number registered since the beginning of the epidemic on the island―1,041 (99.3%) present a stable clinical evolution and another eight patients are in intensive care, 6 of them in critical condition and 2 in serious condition. According to the MINSAP report, there were 88 hospital discharges yesterday, with which the number of patients who have recovered from the disease in Cuba amounts to 9,307, which represents 88.6% of total cases. The island is reaching the end of the year with...

After having approved phase 2 of clinical trials of its second vaccine candidate to prevent COVID-19, called Soberana 02, Cuba began vaccinating volunteers, Havana’s Finlay Institute reported this Tuesday. “This week the vaccination process of the Phase II Clinical Trial of vaccine #Soberana02 began. Everything has gone normally and complying with good practices,” the scientific center dedicated to research and vaccine production reported on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FinlayInstituto/status/1341466351437799425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341466351437799425%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-inicia-segunda-fase-de-ensayos-clinicos-de-su-candidato-vacunal-soberana-02%2F In this Cuban vaccine candidate, the virus antigen and tetanus toxoid are combined, as the director general of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, Vicente Vérez, recently explained. Phase 2 should involve about a hundred people, which will increase to between 300 and 600 in a phase II-B. Phase 3―more complex to develop on the island due to the low incidence of the disease―should include an even greater number of volunteers. Vérez described this future conjugate vaccine as “innovative” because, he assured, its formulation is unprecedented among all those currently being developed in the world to face SARS-CoV-2. On December 17, after preliminary positive results of phase I, “Soberana 02" received authorization from the island’s Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices to advance to phase II of clinical trials, which is why...

Cuba exceeded 1,000 active COVID-19 cases for the first time this year, after registering at the end of this Monday its maximum number of contagions with the disease in 24 hours (142), according to figures released by the Ministry of Health Island Public (MINSAP). In its most recent report on the impact of the coronavirus, the MINSAP reported two deaths from the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, with which the total number of deaths from the pandemic in Cuba now rises to 139. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1341446490586288129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341446490586288129%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-sobrepasa-los-1-000-casos-activos-de-covid-19-tras-registrar-nuevo-record-diario-de-contagios%2F According to the source, at the end of this Monday 3,262 patients were hospitalized, of them 786 suspects, 1,455 under epidemiological surveillance and 1,021 confirmed with the contagious disease. This Monday, 12,568 real-time PCR tests were carried out, and the Island has already processed a total of 1,356,561 samples to detect COVID-19 since March to date. Of the patients diagnosed on the day, 72 were contacts of confirmed cases, 64 arrived in Cuba already infected and in six the source of infection is not known; 66.1% (94) of them did not present symptoms at the time of diagnosis. Two patients in critical condition and five in serious condition are being treated in Cuban intensive care units, while...

The question that gives the title to this note has been worrying Cubans inside and outside the island for months, and that doubt has been reactivated after the announcement of the monetary reorganization in the country as of January 1. In theory, the answer is yes, both now and once the reorganization begins, but in practice, at least for the moment, the reality is different, while on the streets the price of the USD is increasing. A recent report published on Radio Habana Cuba said that exchange houses in Cuba don’t have dollars to sell, and at the moment they only market that currency to travelers leaving the island, according to Joaquín Alonso, president of the official entity known as CADECA, which has a network of 172 offices throughout the country, including airports and tourist destinations. “Today we do not sell foreign currency in any exchange office in the cities, only in the airports and only to passengers who leave the country, with a maximum limit of 300 CUC (Cuban convertible pesos, which will stop circulating with the monetary reorganization), because there´s no more availability at the moment,” emphasized the official. Alonso confirmed that the sale of foreign currency in...

With the 115 new infections reported by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Cuba is beginning the next to the last week of a month in which COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed, largely due to imported cases. In fact, 51 of the positive cases had the source of infection abroad, 54 were contacts of confirmed cases, while in 10 individuals the source of infection is not specified. For this diagnosis, until midnight December 20, 14,378 samples were processed, with which 1,343,993 tests have already been carried out on the island in search of the SARS-CoV-2 virus since March. Except for the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, all provinces reported infections. Havana and Artemisa, with 30 and 29 cases, respectively, are the territories in which the greatest number of patients were identified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1341061025639088132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1341061025639088132%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-con-115-nuevos-contagios-tras-realizar-mas-de-14000-pruebas%2F Nine provinces reported autochthonous cases. Meanwhile, Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos, Ciego de Ávila, Las Tunas and Guantánamo only registered imported cases. Ten people were in intensive care until midnight yesterday: three in critical condition and seven in serious condition. There were no new deaths from the coronavirus and the death toll remains at 137. The number of recovered patients now reaches 9,126, after yesterday’s 86 discharges reported...

After processing 12,642 tests in search of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Cuban health authorities identified 103 new infections, of which 48 were imported. Twelve provinces are involved in the report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Havana continues to lead, with 40 cases; 19 of them had the source of infection abroad. Among the capital’s contagions is a nine-month-old girl living in the Boyeros municipality, who is kept under surveillance, according to the MINSAP. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1340699651977195525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1340699651977195525%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-procesa-mas-de-12000-pruebas-y-detecta-103-nuevos-contagios-por-coronavirus%2F Taking into account the total number of COVID-19 patients today, the provinces with the highest numbers are Matanzas and Santiago de Cuba, with nine cases each, Artemisa with eight, and Mayabeque with seven. Of the total of positive cases diagnosed this time, 68% were asymptomatic, 45 were contacts of confirmed cases and in 10 individuals the source of infection was not specified. The death toll remains at 137 since the first patients from the new coronavirus were reported on the island, on March 11. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/coronavirus-cuba-exceeds-10-thousand-cases-with-a-new-record-of-131-infections-in-one-day/ At midnight yesterday, 64 patients had been discharged. With them the number of recovered is 9,040. Meanwhile, 3,700 remained hospitalized for epidemiological surveillance : 948 were confirmed with the disease. The MINSAP reported 12 patients in intensive...

With the arrival this Friday of the inaugural flight of Hola Sun and Caribe Sol tour operators with the OWG airline, from Canada, to the Abel Santamaría International Airport, in Santa Clara, the return of international tourism to central Cuba began after the pause forced by COVID -19. A hundred travelers arrived on board the aircraft from the Canadian cities of Toronto and Montreal. Of them, 42 headed to Rancho Luna beach, in Cienfuegos, while another 95 had reservations for the tourist destination of Cayo Santa María, north of Villa Clara, according to the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency. Esther Lidia Machado, main specialist of the delegation of the Ministry of Tourism in the province of Villa Clara, explained to the agency that the Playa Cayo Santa María Hotel is reopening with this group of tourists. Check Post Here For her part, Malvis Oro, operations specialist at Havantur Centro―a Cuban travel agency ―reported that as of next Friday, two weekly OWG flights will arrive, one from Toronto and the other from Montreal, while this Sunday another flight with Canadian tourists is expected, this one with Air Canada, and another flight from Poland with Blue Panorama will arrive from...

Cuba exceeded 10,000 cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, with 131 infections reported this Saturday, a figure that marks a new record of new patients in a day for the Island. In total, the number of infected amounted to 10,024, while the number of fatalities remained at 137 as there were no deaths from COVID-19 yesterday. In addition, 64 discharges were given, with which the recovered are already 8,976. The evacuees are still two. Active cases are now 909, of which 898 present a stable clinical evolution, while 11 confirmed patients are treated in intensive therapies, three of them critical and eight serious, according to the most recent report from the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1340335144943702017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1340335144943702017%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-cuba-sobrepasa-los-10-mil-casos-con-nuevo-record-de-131-contagios-en-un-dia%2F The Ministry of Health also reports that 3,723 patients have been admitted for clinical epidemiological surveillance, 353 of them suspected, 1,889 under surveillance and 909 confirmed. Meanwhile, the 131 new cases were detected after studying 12,052 samples, an equally record figure for the Island in one day. Of these infections, 33 are contacts of confirmed cases, 61 have their source of infection abroad, and in three the source of infection had not been specified. News under construction ...

Cuba approved the second phase of clinical trials for its Soberana 02 COVID-19 vaccine candidate after registering preliminary positive results in the first phase of studies on humans, the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) reported this Thursday. The IFV director general stated that this new phase of the study will involve a group of 100 volunteers who will receive the drug, plus another larger group―between 300 and 600 people―in which, in addition to the vaccine project, a placebo will be included, according to Granma newspaper. https://twitter.com/FinlayInstituto/status/1339611376843669517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339611376843669517%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Faprueban-segunda-fase-de-ensayos-clinicos-en-candidato-vacunal-cubano-soberana-02%2F The third phase of the study will be more complex, due to the low incidence of COVID-19 in the country, and should include around 150,000 people, the source indicated. Soberana 02 became the first coronavirus vaccine from a Latin American country that is advancing to the second phase of clinical trials. It is an innovative drug, as it is unprecedented among all those being developed to face the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the world, said Dr. Vérez. The scientist explained that in this candidate the virus antigen and tetanus toxoid are combined. In November it was included by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the official register of COVID-19 projects in phases...

Not even because of COVID-19, or perhaps because of that, did Cubans stop attending El Rincón, the temple of one of the most popular saints in Cuba: Babalú Ayé, San Lázaro, the protector of lepers who has his throne in the Rincón National Sanctuary. EFE photojournalist Ernesto Mastracusa arrived there, and what you will see below was what his camera captured. National Sanctuary of San Lázaro in El Rincón. Cuban Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (c), blesses a woman during her visit to the church of El Rincón. Cuban Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (c), blesses a woman during his visit to the church of El Rincón. Health workers rest after the visit of religious people to the El Rincón Sanctuary, where tribute to San Lázaro is paid. The wake is starting Oh, what do we do to Babalú Give me seventeen candles To place them crosswise. (Song: Miguelito Valdés) *Originally published by OnCuba on December 18, 2020. 

With 142 recovered patients, the statistics seem encouraging; however, the new infections this Thursday rose to 122, a high number, the second highest after 124 were detected positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus last December 6. More than half correspond to imported cases (66 imported-56 autochthonous), the predominant scenario since last December 11, according to Dr. Francisco Durán in his appearance on Fridays from the Cuban television studios. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1339948717051396096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339948717051396096%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-142-pacientes-de-alta-los-nuevos-contagios-se-elevan-a-122%2F “The number of imported cases has been higher than the autochthonous ones since December 11. It is a problem that has to do with the behavior of the disease in the world,” said Durán. In this regard, he stressed that the main origins of the travelers have been the United States, Mexico, Panama and Haiti. Durán also referred to the fact that 68% of the cases found out about their health after the test carried out at the airport. Except for Isla de la Juventud, all provinces are affected by the detection of imported cases this time, a record in which the provinces of Havana (27 cases), Ciego de Ávila (four) and Camagüey (four) stand out. Regarding autochthonous cases, Havana also tops the list (16 cases), followed by Matanzas (14) and Artemisa...

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) registered 100 new positive cases for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, half of them infected abroad. According to the MINSAP daily report, at the end of this Wednesday, 3,675 patients were hospitalized, of which 862 are active cases, and 848 are suspects. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1339606160748363776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339606160748363776%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-reporto-100-nuevos-casos-de-covid-19-al-cierre-de-este-miercoles%2F With the patients diagnosed yesterday, the island has a total of 9,771 infections since the coronavirus epidemic began, the source indicates. The figures registered on Wednesday were the result of the study of 10,864 PCR samples, with which Cuba reached 1,294,052 tests carried out to detect the virus. Of the 100 new patients, 45 were contacts of confirmed cases and the source of infection of five is unknown; 92 are Cubans and eight are foreigners. At the time of diagnosis, 77 of those infected had no symptoms of COVID-19. The Cuban capital continues to be the province most affected by the outbreak of the disease since Cuba reopened its borders. Yesterday it reported 33 positive cases (13 imported). In the list, with double digits it is followed by Matanzas, which reported 16 new coronavirus patients, Artemisa (12) and Camagüey (10), while the rest of the provinces presented lower figures....

A tour of emblematic Art Deco buildings in Havana, as well as the legacy of this trend in Cuban design from the first half of the last century, focused on the online event “Art Deco Havana: Architecture and Design,” which took place this Tuesday afternoon. Organized by the Copperbridge Foundation (CBF), the meeting, which began at 6:00 p.m., was attended by specialists Universo García (architect) and José A. Menéndez (designer), who offered a historical tour of different Art Deco architectural jewels in Havana, from the Bacardí building, the América Theater and the López-Serrano building, to small houses and other recently restored buildings of this style, which function as headquarters for private businesses (boutique hotels and restaurants). In addition, the work of Cuban Deco designer Enrique García Cabrera, a forerunner of Cuban design at the beginning of the 20th century, was discussed in a talk moderated by Rosa Lowinger, art curator and president of RLA Conservation, Inc. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba-usa/10x10-a-virtual-event-bringing-people-together-through-culture/ “I have great appreciation for Copperbridge’s work in bringing people together and fostering exchanges. As an artist, I perceive genuine sensitivity in every action in its extensive program, always trying to extend the public reach of our work. As a Cuban who lives...

Twelve provinces are involved in the diagnoses, although five of them only reported cases with a source of infection abroad.

Resolution 328 of the Ministry of Finance and Prices, published last Thursday in the Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria number 70, indicates that the fees for shows in theaters, houses of culture and other related activities will be in Cuban pesos (CUP), the only currency of legal tender that will be used in Cuba as of January 1.