The U.S. travel insurance company Generali Global Assistance, Inc. (GGA) agreed to pay close to six million dollars for violating the Cuban Assets Control Regulation (CACR) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Prensa Latina news agency reported this Thursday. According to a press release from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the CGA company referred payments related to Cuba to its Canadian affiliate “thereby avoiding processing reimbursement payments directly to Cuban parties and to travelers while they were located in Cuba,” the source said. GGA, based in New York, agreed to disburse 5,864,860 dollars due to its alleged civil liability for 2,593 violations of the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, which forms part of the policies of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. OFAC determined that the apparent violations constitute an “egregious case.” https://oncubanews.com/cuba-ee-uu/que-es-y-que-hace-la-ofac/ According to Prensa Latina, the company joins other international institutions fined by the Trump administration during the last year such as the British bank Standard Chartered, Expedia Group, General Electric, Allianz Global Risks U.S. Insurance Company and the Swiss Chubb Limited. Last May, the U.S. government also fined Biomin America, a Kansas-based company specialized in animal nutrition, which between July 2012 and September 2017 carried out...

Help us keep OnCuba alive Health authorities registered 48 new COVID-19 cases in Cuba today, after 7,545 tests to detect the disease were carried out on the first day of October. 156 patients were discharged and 5,078 have already recovered from the pandemic on the island. The cases were reported in five provinces: Ciego de Ávila (27 in the main municipality), Havana (13 cases in five municipalities), Sancti Spíritus (six in two municipalities), Matanzas (one in Cárdenas) and Artemisa (one in San Cristóbal). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1312020192868868105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1312020192868868105%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-suma-48-nuevos-casos-de-covid-19-156-pacientes-recibieron-el-alta%2F 43 of these contagions correspond to Cubans, and five to foreigners (Indian citizens residing in the Havana municipality of Regla), with which the total is classified as autochthonous. 44 were contacts of confirmed cases, “in fact they were in isolation centers,” Dr. Francisco Durán said during his morning briefing. In four individuals the source of infection was not specified. 32 males and 16 females; of the total, 28 were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis, according to today’s report. There were also no deaths on the day and the fatality rate is now 2.13%. By age, the day’s cases classified as: 10 under 20 years; 19 between 20 and 39; 13 between 40 and 59,...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The last day of September has left Cuba with 73 new contagions from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, confirming that it has been the month with the highest number of cases since the pandemic began, as Dr. Francisco Durán recently said. 72 of them correspond to Cubans and one to a 28-year-old foreigner living in the Havana municipality of Playa. The person tested positive after his return, and is therefore the only imported case. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1311664354266214402 72 were contacts of confirmed cases and there were no cases without specifying the source of infection. 49 males, 24 females and, of the total, 52 were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis, as can be seen in today’s report. 50 of the new cases correspond to the main municipality of Ciego de Ávila. In addition, COVID-19 patients were reported from Havana (nine cases in eight municipalities), Sancti Spíritus (13 cases in two municipalities) and Matanzas (one in Limonar). By age group, patients are classified as follows: four under 20 years of age; 29, between 20 and 39; 33, between 40 and 50, and seven over 60. During the day, 29 patients were discharged; while nine people were in intensive care:...

The governor of Havana, Reinaldo García Zapata, announced this Wednesday on the television program Mesa Redonda the relaxation of restrictive measures against COVID-19 in Havana starting today October 1st. After a Provincial Defense Council (CDP) assessment on the decrease in events and active outbreaks in the capital, and of critical, serious cases and deaths in September, it was decided to abolish a group of measures previously adopted, to maintain others and propose steps to increase the level of production and services. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/havana-extends-restrictive-measures-against-covid-19-for-15-days/ Among them, the following stand out: Promote return to work under the premise of reactivating production and services. Continue using the option of teleworking and distance work. Eliminate the prohibition on the mobility of people and vehicles from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Both people and cars will now be able to circulate within the city round the clock. Maintain the prohibition of interprovincial transportation to and from Havana. The departure to other provinces, in an organized manner, of people who were stranded in Havana will be guaranteed. The PCR test will be made before the trip. Entry and exit to the city will not be allowed. Only with authorization. Street vendors will be able to move from...

Help us keep OnCuba alive Less than 12 hours before the end of September, Cuba reports 66 new contagions from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to the health authorities in the report issued today . 65 of them correspond to Cubans and one to a foreigner, a French temporary resident who acquired the disease on the island. 65 were autochthonous cases and one is imported, which, according to Dr. Francisco Durán, goes to the records of the province of Granma, Jiguaní, where the 32-year-old woman resides. She was diagnosed during her quarantine after returning to the country. 61 were contacts of confirmed cases, in four individuals the source of infection is not specified and one, as was said above, acquired the disease abroad. Men predominated over women (54-12) and, with this data, 51% of those infected, to date, correspond to the male gender, according to Dr. Durán. The territories that reported the contagions were: Ciego de Ávila (40 cases in three municipalities), Sancti Spíritus (14 in four municipalities), Havana (10 in nine municipalities), Matanzas (one in Cárdenas) and Granma (one in Juguaní). As of midnight on September 29, 7,150 people were hospitalized. There were 27 medical discharges on this day and...

Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuban health authorities reported today that the SARS-CoV-2 virus produced 48 new contagions in the last 24 hours, while 79 patients were discharged, for a total of 4,866 recovered patients since the pandemic began on March 11. The new cases, with which the island accumulates 5,531, correspond to Cubans and all of them were autochthonous: 43 due to contacts with confirmed cases and in five individuals the source of infection could not be specified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1310941661481050114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1310941661481050114%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-supera-los-5500-contagios-por-coronavirus-luego-de-los-48-casos-de-hoy%2F The territories reported COVID-19 cases yesterday: Havana (30 cases in eight municipalities), Sancti Spíritus (nine, in three municipalities), Ciego de Ávila (seven, in three municipalities) and Matanzas (two in Cárdenas). 22 men, 26 women, and of the total, 32 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. By age groups, in the report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), nine children under 20 years of age were reported; 15 between 20 and 39; another 15 between 40 and 59, and nine over 60. There were no deaths and the fatalities remain at 122. At midnight on September 28, 7,298 people remained hospitalized on a day in which 7,424 tests were carried out throughout the country in search of...

The Cuban Council of Ministers approved a group of new measures to “continue advancing in the improvement of state-owned enterprises,” as part of its current economic strategy, the official media reported. The regulations, approved during the September session of the island’s highest governing body, “tend to grant greater autonomy to enterprises,” while “making more flexible” the operation of the basic business units, according to the head of the Permanent Commission for Implementation and Development, Marino Murillo, quoted by Cubadebate. As part of the new measures, the distribution of retained earnings after taxes is made more flexible, with the elimination of the limit that has existed until now of up to five average salaries “without conditioning it to the fulfillment or overcompliance of the directive indicators,” explained Murillo. The generalization of “pay for high performance” was approved for the entire business system, which is currently a faculty of enterprises that apply the so-called Business Improvement, while also allowing retired workers to be hired to occupy the same position held at the time of obtaining their pension, “as long as it responds to the interest of the entity.” Likewise, state enterprises were authorized to hire the entity’s workers outside of their working...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The number of people detected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus dropped to 26 in Cuba, as reported this morning by Dr. Francisco Durán during his daily appearance before the press. There were no deaths yesterday and the number of fatalities from the pandemic remained at 122, with a lethality rate of 2.22%. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1310568290788483072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1310568290788483072%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-suma-26-nuevos-casos-de-covid-19-36-personas-reciben-el-alta%2F All the cases were autochthonous, all of them correspond to Cubans, and all were contacts of confirmed cases, according to the information also collected in the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The provinces that registered the contagions were Havana (16 infections in eight municipalities), Ciego de Ávila (6 in three municipalities), Sancti Spíritus (2 in the provincial capital), Artemisa (1 in Candelaria) and Matanzas (1 in Cárdenas). There was a balance between women and men (13), and 12 of the 26 patients were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ With yesterday’s 36 discharges, the number of patients who have recovered in Cuba from the pandemic is now 4,787. Five were kept in intensive care: two in critical condition and three in serious condition.

The elderly who are over 75 years old in Ciego de Ávila will receive preventive treatments with the drug Biomodulin T, leader of the Cuban pharmaceutical industry, to face the deadly outbreak of COVID-19 that the central province has registered. The cytorestorative and immunomodulatory drug will be administered intravenously, at the rate of one dose every seven days, for six consecutive weeks, the local newspaper Invasor reported. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/ciencia/aplican-en-cuba-biomodulina-t-para-reforzar-las-defensas-ante-el-coronavirus/ Ciego de Ávila has reported about 300 new contagions in September, which is why it has the island’s highest incidence rate of patients per 100,000 inhabitants. The outbreak of COVID-19 in that province has cost the lives of 16 people so far this month, after adding three deaths this weekend, which is why the Cuban health authorities have taken extraordinary measures to control the expansion and severity of the wave of contagions. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/covid-19-outbreak-causes-13-deaths-in-ciego-de-avila-this-month/ The treatment with Biomodulin T is based voluntary for people over 75 years of age, although other younger adults showed up on the first day of application, according to the source. Dr. Yurisán Espinosa, director of Science and Technological Innovation at the University of Medical Sciences, explained that “the Transfer Factor (HERBERTRANS), another Cuban product that fundamentally increases cellular...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The SARS-CoV-2 virus produced two new deaths yesterday in Ciego de Ávila, while, in total, three provinces reported 45 new contagions, according to the report by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) issued this Sunday. The new deaths correspond to a 68-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman. Both resided in the main municipality of Ciego de Ávila province. The details of both cases appear in today’s report . The three provinces that reported cases are Havana (30 contagions in 13 municipalities), Ciego de Ávila (12 in three municipalities) and Matanzas (3 in three municipalities). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1310221233271828480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1310221233271828480%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-dos-muertes-en-ciego-de-avila-y-45-nuevos-contagios-desde-tres-provincias%2F All were Cuban, and all the cases are autochthonous. 42 of the patients had contact with confirmed cases and in three individuals the cause of infection is not specified. 28 men, 17 women and, of the total, 32 were asymptomatic at the time of their diagnosis. With today’s two fatalities, the death toll in Cuba from the pandemic stands at 122. The fatality rate is already 2.23%. Until midnight on September 26, 8,285 people remained hospitalized, while the number of patients in intensive care reached seven: three reported in critical condition and four seriously ill, all from Havana and Camagüey....

Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuba confirmed two deaths from the coronavirus and 62 new cases, according to the usual report by Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The deceased are from the provinces of Ciego de Ávila and Havana. They are a 53-year-old woman with a history of high blood pressure and obesity, and a 75-year-old man from the Habana del Este municipality with previous conditions of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cerebrovascular disease. The specialist indicated that the new reported cases belong to the provinces of Mayabeque, Havana, Matanzas, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila. Dr. Francisco Durán, Cuban Ministry of Public Health national director of Epidemiology. Photo: Progreso Semanal. Havana and Ciego de Ávila remain the main sources of coronavirus after the outbreak of the disease. In both provinces, health authorities are working hard to control transmission, the specialist said. He pointed out that 8,291 people are hospitalized in institutions, of them 6,322 under surveillance, 1,411 suspects and 558 confirmed cases. Of the new cases, 58 are Cubans and 4 are foreigners residing in Cuba. 3 patients are reported in critical condition, 5 in serious condition and 4,732 patients have...

Help us keep OnCuba alive September is nearing its end and the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus seem to vary slightly, although the new contagions have remained at the same number during the last two days: 40 contagions were also reported today, but only from Havana and Ciego de Ávila, according to the health authorities. For Dr. Francisco Durán, the tendency is to regain control of the disease and, from what he said, six provinces have not reported cases for more than 15 days: Pinar del Río, Las Tunas, Villa Clara, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo. In addition to these, the special municipality Isla de la Juventud also has not reported infections in the last two weeks. All the cases today are autochthonous and correspond to Cubans: 39 of them had contact with confirmed cases and the source of infection is not specified in only one individual. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1309487145854304256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1309487145854304256%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-reporta-40-nuevos-contagios-por-covid-19-todos-de-la-habana-y-ciego-de-avila%2F 23 men and 17 women; of the total, 37 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. By age group, those affected were: nine under 20 years of age; 14 between 20 to 39 years; 15, between 40 and 59; and two are over 60. The tests carried out this time increased...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused 13 deaths so far this month in the province of Ciego de Ávila, which has the island’s highest incidence rate of positive cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants during the last 15 days. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned this Tuesday about the lethality of the virus in that province, which has had five consecutive days with reports of deaths from the disease, “something that had not happened in our country for a long time,” said the president, quoted by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency. Deaths resulting from the pandemic in Cuba amounted to 118, after the death of another person in Ciego de Ávila, according to the Cuban health authorities’ report. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/muere-otro-avileno-por-coronavirus-y-los-nuevos-contagios-en-cuba-suman-48/ The most recent victim of the pandemic on the island was 84 years old and his residence was in the Majagua municipality, one of the five demarcations of that central province that reported cases yesterday. The details of the evolution of the deceased are described in the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Ciego de Ávila presents a complex epidemiological situation, with reports of contagions in its 10 municipalities during this outbreak, reported the governor of the...

Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuba reported 40 new contagions due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus this Thursday, after 6,625 tests in search of the new coronavirus throughout the country, according to Dr. Francisco Durán. No deaths were reported. The fatality rate stands at 2.22%. All the patients on this day correspond to Cubans: 39 are autochthonous cases and one imported, which goes to the records of the Jatibonico municipality of Jatibonico, the place of residence of the 43-year-old man, the only person who today was infected abroad. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1309128261310480385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1309128261310480385%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcuba-40-nuevos-contagios-de-coronavirus-y-ninguna-muerte-por-primera-vez-en-seis-dias%2F Of the total, 37 were contacts of confirmed cases and in two individuals the source of infection is not specified, according to the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).   14 men and 26 women. Half of all cases were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. By age group, the most affected this time were those between 40 and 59 years old, with 14 cases; and those under 20, with 12. There are six people between 20 and 39, and eight over 60. The territories that reported new COVID-19 cases are these: Ciego de Ávila (23), Havana (14), Artemisa (1), Sancti Spíritus (1) and Camagüey (1). At midnight on September...

The authorities of the Holguín municipalities of Antilla and Banes decreed hygienic and sanitary measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, which caused a death in the first of those demarcations, reported the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency. The victim lived in Antilla, but worked in Banes, which is why outbreak events have been opened in both urban areas, where health workers carry out daily screenings and intense epidemiological surveillance. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/coronavirus-preocupacion-en-provincia-cubana-por-fallecido-reportado-este-sabado/ Local governments established the mandatory use of facemasks, and recommended maintaining physical distance between people in places of public concentration, such as means of transportation and lines. The director of Health in Holguín, Katia Ochoa, explained this Monday that in the two affected municipalities “population studies are being expedited in order to detect in the shortest possible time the greatest number of contacts with the deceased patient, be they from the areas where he resided, where he worked and from the medical centers where he was hospitalized.” So far, 102 contacts linked to this case have been detected and isolated, which over the weekend set off the alarms of authorities and residents of that province. The municipal Defense Councils insisted on accelerating the disinfection of public spaces such...

Help us keep OnCuba alive Until midnight this Tuesday, contagions from the SARS-CoV-2 virus totaled 48 and deaths amounted to 118, after the death of another person in Ciego de Ávila, the Cuban health authorities reported today. The most recent victim of the pandemic on the island was 84 years old and his residence was in the Majagua municipality, one of the five Ciego de Ávila territories that reported cases yesterday. The details of the evolution of the deceased are described in the report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). All of the day’s contagions are Cuban; 44 contacts of confirmed cases and in four individuals the source of infection is not specified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1308763271936323588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308763271936323588%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fmuere-otro-avileno-por-coronavirus-y-los-nuevos-contagios-en-cuba-suman-48%2F 33 men and 15 women; of the total, 39 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. The provinces that reported contagions were: Havana (29 cases), Ciego de Ávila (11), Matanzas (6), Sancti Spíritus (1) and Artemisa (1). By age group, the most affected were those between 20 and 39 years old, with 20 cases; and those over 60, with 10. Eight individuals are aged between 40 to 59, and six were under 20. Yesterday, 76 patients were discharged, for a total of 4,582 patients...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba registered one deceased and 81 new infections from five provinces. The victim of COVID-19 is a 63-year-old man, a resident of Ciego de Ávila, details of which are given in the report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). With his death, the death toll has reached 117 and the fatality rate remains at 2.24%. The new contagions correspond to 73 Cubans and eight foreigners, temporary residents on the island, although all were autochthonous: 78 contacts of confirmed cases and in three individuals the source of infection is not specified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1308403156217401351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308403156217401351%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fa-81-se-elevan-los-nuevos-contagios-por-covid-19-en-cuba-un-fallecido-en-ciego-de-avila%2F The provinces that reported the contagions were: Havana (42 patients), Matanzas (24), Ciego de Ávila (13), Sancti Spíritus (1) and Holguín (1). “The situation is complex, control is not achieved, the vaccine should not be available until next year,” said Dr. Francisco Durán during his daily appearance. Men predominate over women (54-27) and 77.8% of the total were asymptomatic. By age group, 10 are between 20 and 39 years old, 40 between 20 and 39 years old, 25 between 40 and 59 years old and four over 60 years old. Until midnight on September 21, 8,074 people...

With dozens of missions completed in different parts of the world, four million people treated and more than 89,000 lives saved, the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics is celebrating its 15 years, precisely when it is playing a predominant role in the fight against the coronavirus. Created in 2005 by the late former President Fidel Castro to aid New Orleans, United States, after the devastating passage of Hurricane Katrina (Washington rejected the aid), this group of “internationalist doctors” has worked in 46 nations and five non-autonomous territories from all over the planet. Its mission is to bring “humanitarian-medical-health aid to populations victims of natural disasters and epidemics in other countries, and help in their recovery,” says the newspaper Granma, which this Saturday dedicated its front page and inside pages to highlight the work of the Cuban doctors. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/oliver-stone-pide-el-nobel-para-medicos-cubanos-diaz-canel-lo-destaca/ Among the Contingent’s most remembered missions are the fight against Ebola in Africa (2015), cholera in Haiti (2010-they treated more than 400,000 people and saved the lives of 76,000) and the earthquake in Pakistan (2005 ), where they treated almost two million patients, performed more than 14,000 surgeries, more than 166,000 survivors received specialized...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus rose to 116 this Sunday in Cuba, after the death of a 50-year-old woman residing in the Ciro Redondo municipality of Ciego de Ávila, according to Dr. Francisco Durán during his appearance this Monday. With this death, explained in the medical report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Cuba’s lethality rate is 2.25%. New contagions, meanwhile, reached 50, after performing 7,598 tests throughout the country. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1308035909674323968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308035909674323968%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fotra-muerte-por-coronavirus-y-50-nuevos-contagios-registra-cuba-este-lunes%2F 48 correspond to Cubans and two to foreigners temporarily residing on the island. Of the total, 40 had contact with confirmed cases and in 10 individuals the source of infection is not specified. 20 men, 22 women and, of the total number of COVID-19 cases, 35 were asymptomatic. The regions that reported the infections were: Havana (31), Matanzas (7), Ciego de Ávila (5), Artemisa (3), Camagüey (2), Mayabeque (1) and Sancti Spíritus (1). According to age group, 10 of the new contagions had not reached the age of 20; 18 were between 20 and 39 years; 19, between 40 and 59, and three were over 60. The hospitalized patients totaled 7,794 at midnight yesterday; 50 were discharged and 13 were...

In addition, this Saturday 128 discharges were given, with which the number of recovered reached 4,412, according to the report issued by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).

51 new contagions. 35 discharges. 2,001 hospitalizations until midnight September 18.

Cuban universities are preparing to close the 2019-2020 school year, interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and resumed this September in the country, except in the territories affected by the current outbreak of the disease. Cuban Minister of Higher Education José Ramón Saborido affirmed that the priority is to finish the completion of studies before October 30 and close the academic year in all universities “before the end of December,” the official newspaper Granma reported this Thursday. During a videoconference exchange with the rectors of the universities and the general directors of the entities of Science, Technology and Innovation, the minister said that to meet this objective in the current conditions it was necessary to “apply all possible variants that allow for the readjustment of the curricular design and guarantee that this process is carried out with quality.” Following this logic, thesis discussions of the University of Havana (UH)―which has not resumed its activities due to the pandemic― have been held in the provinces of residence of the graduates. An example of this are the final exercises of students of the Faculty of Chemistry of the UH before academic tribunals of Matanzas, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency reported. According...

Japan will donate medical equipment to Cuba to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on the Caribbean island, as part of the Japanese government’s Non-Reimbursable Financial Cooperation program. The signing ceremony for the donation, worth 500 million Japanese yen (approximately US$ 4.7 million), was held this Wednesday by the Asian country’s ambassador in Havana, Fujimura Kazuhiro, and Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Déborah Rivas, Cubadebate reported. https://twitter.com/R_Malmierca/status/1306340216278528001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1306340216278528001%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fjapon-donara-equipos-medicos-a-cuba%2F With the donation made up of high-quality health equipment, the Japanese executive hopes to contribute to the strengthening of the health system and the measures to control infectious diseases in Cuba, the source indicated. This is the first international assistance that Japan has signed under the new government of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, who has just assumed office, following the resignation of Shinzo Abe. https://oncubanews.com/mundo/asia/shinzo-abe-renuncia-como-primer-ministro-de-japon/ Abe, 65, notified at the end of August his intention to resign for the same health reasons that led to his first resignation as prime minister thirteen years ago: chronic ulcerative colitis, which he has suffered since he was a teenager. “If you are sick and not in good physical shape, you should not make important political decisions or stop producing results,” said the then...

Help us keep OnCuba alive The SARS-CoV-2 virus has taken two new deaths, with which the number of deaths rises to 111 in Cuba. Meanwhile, 71 new contagions were reported today, and with that figure the country has registered 5,004 positive cases since March, when the pandemic started. The deceased in the last 24 hours: an 80-year-old woman from Havana and a 41-year-old man from Ciego de Ávila. The details of both are presented in the report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The country’s fatality rate is 2.21%. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1306964487212355584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1306964487212355584%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fla-covid-19-suma-111-muertes-en-cuba-y-los-contagios-superan-los-5000%2F “These are blows that impress us, but we have to face them and keep looking for new ways to save lives,” said Dr. Francisco Durán, after giving his condolences to the families of the new victims. Meanwhile, the new contagions correspond to Cubans: 63 were contacts of confirmed cases, in three individuals the source of infection is not specified and five acquired the virus abroad. 36 men, 35 women and, of the total, 45 were asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. By regions, today’s cases are from Havana (34), Ciego de Ávila (20), Matanzas (7), Sancti Spíritus (6), Pinar del Río (1), Mayabeque (1), Camagüey (1) and...

The 4,319 health workers in Ciego de Ávila began receiving doses of Nasalferon (nasal version of Interferon alpha 2-b) as a preventive measure to stop the transmission of COVID-19. Given the rapid spread of the coronavirus in that province in the last 15 days, the Cuban government sent a group of experts led by the national director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Ileana Morales, to help control the outbreak, the newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported. “In the world, along with the elderly, health personnel have been one of the most affected by the pandemic and where high numbers of deaths have been registered,” Morales said, quoted by the source. She stressed that in Cuba it is “our moral obligation” to take all possible actions to protect their lives. https://twitter.com/dpsCiego/status/1306237337932828674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1306237337932828674%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fsuministraran-interferon-nasal-a-todos-los-trabajadores-sanitarios-de-ciego-de-avila%2F Nasalferon―considered one of the leading products of the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry―has demonstrated its effectiveness against the coronavirus, by raising the immune system in the more than 20,000 Cubans who have received it, said Dr. Hugo Nodarse, a researcher at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. “Its preventive effect has a long-term projection. It does not have very big adverse side effects, perhaps some discomfort,...