So far in March alone, COVID-19 has caused 77 deaths and 17,660 infections on the island. Dr. Durán highlighted the danger that the disease represents for the most vulnerable groups.

The intervention study, approved by the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), aims to evaluate the effects of vaccination in population sectors with high “risk of infection, disease and spread of the pandemic.”

Pan-Corona is the name of the vaccine candidate that aims to “protect against various strains of the coronavirus, based on both antibody responses and cellular responses, which are the two components of the immune reaction,” according to a report by the Xinhua agency.

To date, the island has reported 67,476 patients from the pandemic and 397 deaths. March, with 73 deaths and 16,886 infections, threatens to at least equal the rates registered during the previous month, the worst for Cuba in a year.

In this way, there are already 16,168 confirmed cases in the first 20 days of March, and 66,758 since the arrival of the pandemic on the island.

From this moment on, all Cubans who want to travel to the Central American country must apply for the Tourism Visa at the Panamanian consulate located in the country of residence or origin, in accordance with Executive Decree No. 88, published in the Gaceta Oficial.

The Ministry of Public Health reported 813 new cases of coronavirus this Saturday, 931 discharges and five deaths.

“Back to the Big Apple, clandestinxs!” they wrote on their official Facebook profile to advance the presentation of the new collection “No winter island” in a space located in “the very heart of Manhattan.”

The phase III trial for Abdala, from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), will take place in the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo between March 22 and April 9.

At the close of the day, 20,975 patients remained hospitalized on the island, of which 3,575 are active cases and 3,709 are under suspicion of having been infected with the virus, Durán explained in his daily conference on the epidemiological situation.

“At the latest, in August we will have manufactured the doses required to immunize our entire population, and then we will continue to produce them, in order to supply them to other friendly countries,” stressed the president of BioCubaFarma.

Four deaths and 689 infections, most of them by autochthonous transmission.

So far, 227 MW have been installed on the island based on photovoltaic systems connected to the electricity grid, said the director of Generation with Renewable Energy Sources of the Cuban Electricity Conglomerate this Tuesday.

“It is false that Cuba interfered or tried to interfere in the U.S. elections,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Director General for the United States of the island’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, wrote on his Twitter account.

In addition, the Caribbean country reached 380 fatalities from COVID-19 with the day’s four deaths.

The Cuban team will share Qualifier Group B of the Americas with Venezuela, Canada and Colombia, which will compete in that order with the island’s team, following the previous schedule established for the Arizona pre-Olympic qualifier, which could not be played last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“During the first two months of 2021, some 35,600 international travelers arrived on the island, representing 4.5% of the 792,507 tourist arrivals at the end of February 2020,” explained the academic and university professor José Luis Perelló.

With the three fatalities of the day, the pandemic’s death toll now stands at 376 in Cuba, 52 in the first fifteen days of March, a month in which the infections, with 12,408, show a notable increase and threaten to equal or exceed February, the worst period in a year of fighting this disease.

An aircraft of the Revolutionary Air Force, surface units of the Border Patrol Troops, fishing, tourism and private vessels participated in the operation, without finding people or other remains of the shipwreck.

The Cuban capital has been the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic on the island throughout all these months, but despite this it has insisted on moving forward.

The provinces with the highest figures were: Havana, Granma, and Pinar del Río. On the contrary, the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, Matanzas and Ciego de Ávila reported fewer patients. Three deaths were also reported.

At the end of Friday, the study was carried out in 40 vaccination centers, a figure that should increase in the coming days, in the municipalities of the Cuban capital selected for the trial.

Most of the patients owe the contagion to autochthonous transmission (909), 891 were related to confirmed cases and five were imported by travelers from Spain, the United States and Italy.

In addition, on the last day a person died from COVID-19, while 909 discharges were registered, bringing the number of fatalities to 366 and the number of recovered to 55,761, according to official statistics.

Twelve months have gone by since the first infections and the disease, far from subsiding, is experiencing its most complex scenario today. But, at the same time, the island exhibits achievements and indisputable successes against the pandemic.