Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Council of Ministers of Cuba this Wednesday addressed the recovery strategy after controlling the COVID-19 epidemic on the island and the measures that will be implemented gradually, including the promotion of national tourism in a first phase. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez chaired the meeting of the highest government body in which the plan for de-escalation measures was examined and approved, which will start with a first stage divided into three phases, the details of which will be disclosed this Thursday in the Mesa Redonda TV program. https://twitter.com/DiazCanelB/status/1271040281492758528 At this time, Cuba reports less hospitalizations than medical discharges in the health system, the active COVID-19 foci are decreasing, as well as the new daily infections, and almost all the municipalities and provinces have not reported incidents in practically a month, according to the president, who considered that the country is “in a position to return to normality.” Normalization will take place “gradually and asymmetrically” to avoid a fresh outbreak and to develop the capacities to deal with it, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero was also quoted as saying by state media. The measures, which in their first phase maintain the use of the facemask...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Three months after the first case of COVID-19 in Cuba was reported, the health authorities reported today the death of an 80-year-old man, thus breaking the eleven-day streak without deaths and the deadly list of the pandemic on the island rises to 84 cases. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1271068488229101568 As for infections, 8 were reported in the last 24 hours, all Cubans. With this diagnosis, there are already 2,291 people with the disease on the island. Two of them were related to confirmed patients, in five individuals the source of infection is not specified and one acquired the disease abroad. This is a 21-year-old woman from Holguin, who arrived from Mexico. Through her, 8 contacts are kept under surveillance in the provincial capital of said region. The remaining 7 correspond to Havana. Among these eight people diagnosed yesterday, the most affected age groups are distributed in: under 40 (4), between 40 to 59 (2) and over 60 (2). Six of this total were asymptomatic and there were equal numbers of infections between men and women. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ Seven patients were discharged yesterday, so the number of recovered patients amounts to 1,893. Meanwhile, a patient in serious condition was reported....

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Although the Cuban government has not released any official statement in this regard, Cuba’s borders will remain closed until at least August 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic. This was confirmed by the effective date of the measures established in NOTAM A2090 of the Institute of Civil Aeronautics of Cuba (IACC). This technical notice, known as the “Notice to Airmen” or “Notice to Mariners,” is submitted to aviation authorities to report on the establishment or modification of aeronautical facilities, services, procedures, or hazards. In this case, the IACC NOTAM establishes that–for the time being– “aircraft operations are allowed only in the interest of medical collaboration, humanitarian aid and cargo transfer, in accordance with established sanitary measures,” until August 1. The same tentative opening date is handled in a tweet from the United States Embassy in Havana. “On June 5, the Cuban government extended the closure of the airport until at least August 1,” says a tweet dated this Monday and which refers to a new health alert also issued by the diplomatic headquarters that day. https://twitter.com/USEmbCuba/status/1270085849393303553 According to the notice, the United States Embassy is exploring options to cope with the sustained interruption of...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Health authorities reported that in the last 24 hours COVID-19 also did not cause deaths and that the number of people, both hospitalized and under primary healthcare surveillance in Cuba, dropped to 561 and 454, respectively. Meanwhile, infections increased by one, comparing them with the previous day. Six new infections were reported, all Cubans. Of these, three individuals had contact with confirmed cases, in two the source of infection was not specified, while one was infected abroad. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1270703946303188992 It is a 50-year-old woman, resident in the Santa Clara municipality, Villa Clara province, who arrived from the United States. The remaining five were located in Havana, in the municipalities of Arroyo Naranjo and Boyeros. By age group, the most affected are concentrated between the ages of 40 to 59 and over 60, followed by those from 20 to 39 and those under 20; 100% of today’s cases were asymptomatic. The country has processed a total of 124,947 tests, of which 2,211 have been positive. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Actress and singer Rosa Fornés died in the early hours of this Wednesday, June 10, the official Rosa Fornes Facebook profile reported minutes ago. “Our dear Rosita has left us, by law of life, after an illness against which she struggled for several years, surrounded by love and without suffering,” explains the note, which reports that the death occurred in her Miami residence, where family and friends accompanied her. Details of his funeral services are still unknown. "Cuba is in mourning, the Spanish-speaking culture loses, perhaps, the last of its great Divas, the most versatile Cuban artist, the actress, singer and dancer who conquered the hearts not only of Cubans, but also of Mexicans, Spaniards and all audiences where she displayed he unequal art.” Rosita Fornés (1947). Photo by Armando Herrera. Taken from Rosa Fornés Oficial Although her real name is Rosalía Palet Bonavía, and she had been born in New York, in 1923, the world knew her as Rosa Fornés since she began her career on September 12, 1938 when she appeared at the famous CMQ radio station’s Corte Suprema del Arte program. Her theater debut was in 1940 with the zarzuela El asombro de Damasco at the La...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Singer-songwriter Pau Donés, vocalist of the group Jarabe de Palo, has died at the age of 53 as a result of the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2015 and against which he had been battling ever since. In a brief statement published on the social media, the Donés Cirera family reported the death of the musician and thanked the medical team and all the staff of the hospitals where he was treated for “all their work and dedication during all this time.” Donés never hid his disease, openly spoke about his fight against it and participated in several charity concerts for cancer research, before and after retiring from the stage, in January 2019. However, last April, in the midst of the pandemic, he had announced his return to music, after being retired for more than a year, and on May 27 Jarabe de Palo released the video of its single “Eso que tú me das,” part of the album Tragas o escupes. Pau Donés is the author of some of Spanish music’s big hits in recent decades, such as “La flaca,” “Depende,” “Humo,” “Grita” or “Bonito,” among other songs, which he has included...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The data regarding the effect of COVID-19 in Cuba are as follows: tenth day without deaths, only five infections, 515 hospitalized persons and 12 medical discharges, according to the last 24 hours’ data provided by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP): The new positive cases are from Havana and Villa Clara, although the case from this province was infected abroad, which is why “it does not increase the incidence of the province, because it is not a consequence of transmission there,” said Dr. Francisco Durán during his daily press conference. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1270343408775823361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1270343408775823361&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fsolo-cinco-contagios-por-covid-19-en-cuba-en-las-ultimas-24-horas%2F The newly diagnosed are Cuban; and in addition to the case from abroad, the source of infection of four of them was from already detected cases; 60% of all of them was asymptomatic. This time there were more women than men (3-2) infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and, by age group, those affected are concentrated in: under 40 years (three) and 40 to 60 (two). Until today, 607 people were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. Cuba has processed a total of 122,603 tests, of which 2,205 have been positive. Follow the evolution of the pandemic on the island at this...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Spanish Senate plans to debate and vote for the third time on a bill of Spanish nationality, after the Izquierda Confederal  party registered it again with the aim of settling “a historical debt” of the so-called “Grandchildren’s Law.” It is a topic followed closely outside Spain, and in particular in Cuba, where if approved, thousands of people could benefit. According to statements by the senator of En Comú Podem, Sara Vilà Galán, cited by the Spanish press, the approval of this bill would make it possible to overcome certain gaps in the well-known Law of Historical Memory of 2007, which has left without protection children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Spanish emigrants, a community that today exceeds 2.5 million people scattered throughout the world. https://twitter.com/SaraVilaG/status/1265607272102801409 Among the “unforgivable” oversights, according to the senator, is the case of the children of those who obtained the nationality of origin through Law 52/2007 who, at the time it came into force, were of legal age and that, as established in the law, they did not obtain nationality, contrary to what happened with minors, who did benefit. Furthermore, the bill incorporates the issue of gender discrimination. “Women who...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here After 57 days, the quarantine finally ended at Home for the Elderly No. 3 in the city of Santa Clara, in the province of Villa Clara, where an outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infected 57 people, three of whom died. Pending the completion of constructive actions in the home’s building, 53 of the elderly remain in the Marta Abreu Special School, and another 29 are in the Rolando Pérez Quintosa Special School, in that city in central Cuba, reported the local newspaper Vanguardia. Last May 22, the last of the patients affected by COVID-19 related to this transmission event, which kept Cuba in suspense for several weeks, was discharged. The infected patients were cared for in the Celestino Hernández and Comandante Manuel Piti Fajardo hospitals in Santa Clara. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/all-covid-19-patients-from-santa-clara-home-for-the-elderly-discharged/ Once the threat is over, the elderly return to their daily routine, which includes morning gymnastics, among other activities, as well as their medical follow-up. “Every morning we do the morning gymnastics. The one who, due to his illness, cannot do them sits in the open air to catch the sun and participate as a spectator, but believe me, it’s a very special moment, because...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba reached nine days without deaths from COVID-19, as reported today by Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), who also said that the nine infections in the last 24 hours correspond to Cubans, and that one of them developed the disease during his mandatory quarantine due to his arrival from abroad. In that case, the individual, 28 years old and who came from Mexico, joins Holguín’s cases, although the province has not reported cases by local transmission for more than a month, despite the data. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1269988471634042880 The other region that added positive cases to this Monday’s report was Havana, from where the remaining eight infections were reported. This time MINSAP reported more men than women (5-4) and, by age group, those affected under 40, with 4; from 40 to 60, with 3, and over 60 years, with 2; 66.7% of the positive cases were asymptomatic. Six patients were discharged yesterday and three people were reported in serious condition, all three from Havana. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ To date, the number of hospitalized is 499; meanwhile, 1,642 people were under primary healthcare surveillance. Cuba has processed a total of...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The curve of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Cuba “has gone a little above the most favorable scenario,” Cuban Minister of Public Health Dr. José Ángel Portal acknowledged this Friday on the Mesa Redonda television program. The increase in cases in recent days will cause the recovery in the country to be postponed more in the struggle against COVID-19, with a curve of active cases that remains in the limit zone, with the risk of moving to the middle zone, a situation that happens almost at the tip of the epidemic, commented Portal quoted by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency. Although the forecast models indicate that the island maintains the limited local transmission phase, the head of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) explained that this trend has varied with the cases of local transmission that occurred in Havana and Matanzas in recent weeks. The most recent report on the situation of the coronavirus in Cuba, issued this Saturday, records a total of 40 positive cases, about twenty of them associated with a Cuban merchant ship that arrived through the province of Matanzas. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/cuba-reports-about-20-infections-with-coronavirus-on-a-merchant-ship/ One of the most important outbreaks...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has published the regulations for flying in times of coronavirus. The document, entitled “Providing a safe and sanitary operating environment for passengers and crew,” establishes a protocol for flights in these new conditions. The goal is for passengers to not have physical contact with each other. As of now, traveling will only be allowed with a backpack or bag that fits under the seat in front of the passenger. According to ICAO, the reason for the measure is related to the fact that both when boarding or getting off the aircraft, the placement and removal of carry-on bags causes numerous reasons for contact between people, regardless of the need to ask for help―not uncommon―or in the end delivering the suitcase so that it finally travels in what Cubans call “the belly of the plane.” https://youtu.be/9IkM70XMGyo Other ICAO instructions include the need to use facemasks on all flights, at all airports, on all aircraft, to check in online and to work contactless in duty free shops and on shipping. Regulations are also issued for the use of the on-board toilets, with a reserved area exclusively for the crew of...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba reached eight days without deaths from COVID-19 and the detected infections dropped to 18, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported today. They are Cuban and this time all the cases were reported in the capital. According to Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology, they were related to the transmission event that occurred at the AICA Laboratories. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-registra-los-principales-focos-del-coronavirus-en-centros-laborales/ Of these cases, 17 were related to confirmed cases; there were more infected women than men (12-6) and, by age group, the most affected were detected in those under 40, between 40 and 60, as well as in those over 60, with six cases each; 94.4% were asymptomatic. In Cuba, 556 people are still hospitalized due to the new coronavirus and 1,180 are under primary healthcare surveillance. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1269622618501439494 Of the 118,488 tests made to date, 2,191 have been positive; 85.07% of these patients overcame the disease. The death toll from the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the island is still 83. Follow the evolution of the pandemic since the first case was reported in Cuba on March 11 at this link . Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported this Saturday 40 new infections with coronavirus, 22 of them among the crew of a Cuban merchant ship, and there are already 2,173 patients detected on the island. The ship arrived in the province of Matanzas from Mexico, as explained in the daily press conference on the subject by Dr. Francisco Durán, director of epidemiology of MINSAP, who commented that in this way the number of active cases amounted to 233. According to the official report, the confirmed crew members reside in the provinces of Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, Las Tunas, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, although they were detected upon arrival on land and, therefore, did not influence the epidemiological behavior of their territories. The remaining 18 positive cases were reported in Havana, confirming it as the epicenter of the disease in Cuba. Of these, 17 are contacts of confirmed cases, while in one the source of infection has not been specified. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1269270889767604224 The day’s good news is that at the close of this Friday the island completed a week without deaths from COVID-19, with which the number of deceased remains at 83. Of...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the United States faces a convergence of historic crises that expose deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities and disrupt the landscape of the November presidential election. In doing so, Obama is showing his willingness to strongly criticize his successor, President Donald Trump. In this way he seems to be filling what many perceive as a void in national leadership. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1267606608953192449 On Wednesday, Obama held a virtual forum with youth to discuss political measures and civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. There, he rejected a debate that he said he had been hearing on internet “chatter” about “voting vs. protest. Politics and participation versus civil disobedience and direct action.” “This is not one thing or the other. It’s about both, and creating real change,” he said. “We both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable, but we also have to translate that into practical solutions and laws that can be implemented.” Obama called for the protests over Floyd’s death to be turned into a political change to ensure safer protection measures and greater trust between...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Since last March 11 and after yesterday’s testing, when 14 positive cases were detected, Cuba has diagnosed 2,133 people with COVID-19, as reported today by the authorities of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). For the sixth consecutive day, the SARS-CoV-2 virus did not cause deaths and the number of deceased remains at 83. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1268898669027299328 Twelve of the fourteen infections corresponded to Havana and, according to Dr. Francisco Durán, 7 of them are related to the transmission event that originated in the AICA Laboratories. Meanwhile, two were detected in Matanzas, one in the main municipality and the other in Limonar. https://oncubanews.com/cuba/cuba-registra-los-principales-focos-del-coronavirus-en-centros-laborales/ All the new infections correspond to Cubans and 13 were related to confirmed cases; 12 are men while the most affected age groups are concentrated between 40 and 59 years, with 8 cases, followed by the group of 20 to 39, with five; 92.8% were asymptomatic. Yesterday there were 9 medical discharges, with which the number of recovered amounts to 1,848 patients on the island. Three people remained in serious condition. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ The country has processed a total of 114,464 tests and, as of yesterday’s close, 521 people were hospitalized and 2,036 were...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Cuban government “strongly” rejected the sanctions announced this Wednesday by the United States Department of State, which added seven Cuban entities to a “black list” of firms with which Americans are prohibited from making any transaction. “I strongly reject sanctions announced by Secretary (Mike) Pompeo #EEUU against 7 #Cuba entities, designed to affect Cuban families,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez wrote on his Twitter account. https://twitter.com/DiazCanelB/status/1268510280448909313 The Cuban foreign minister described as “shameful and criminal” the strengthening of the economic, financial and commercial embargo the Washington government applies to the Caribbean country in the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those actions affect three hotels, two diving centers and a marine park for tourists, as well as the financial institution Fincimex, which will be prohibited from doing business with companies or U.S. citizens, under the pretext that they are owned by the military. Since arriving at the White House in 2017, the current U.S. administration, led by the Republican Trump, has reversed the approach to Cuba that had been promoted by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and has strengthened the Cuba policy. https://oncubanews.com/cuba-usa/estados-unidos-agrega-siete-entidades-cubanas-al-listado-de-restriccion-de-empresas/ This rollback has led to measures such as the reduction of...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Five days without deaths from COVID-19 and 12 new infections, of which one hundred percent were related to confirmed contacts. Today’s report by the health authorities on the pandemic in Cuba focused on this data. Once again, the new infections all corresponded to Cubans and the provinces where they are concentrated were Havana, with 7 cases, and Matanzas, with 5. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1268535424122789895 There were the same amount of infected women and men, while the most affected age groups correspond to people between 40 to 60 years, with 5 cases; and under 40, with four. Seven persons were diagnosed without having any symptoms. Yesterday there were 9 discharges, for 1,839 recovered patients; meanwhile, four patients were reported in serious condition: three in Havana and one in Las Tunas. As of midnight yesterday, 527 people were hospitalized for epidemiological clinical surveillance and 1,955 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ The country has processed a total of 112,449 tests. Only yesterday, according to what Dr. Francisco Durán said today, 2,100 samples were analyzed. The island has registered a total of 2,119 infections and the death toll remains at 83. Help us keep OnCuba alive here

Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Cuban Telecommunications Enterprise S.A. (ETECSA) announced “interruptions in the access to Internet connection services through different channels, that is, Wi-Fi, home or mobile data,” in the early morning hours during this week because it will be carrying out “work on the telecommunications networks.” As of this Tuesday until the 6th, the enterprise will carry out these maintenance actions to “improve services,” according to a note from the entity, published by Cubadebate. https://twitter.com/ETECSA_Cuba/status/1267817984577298437 The statement indicates that they chose the early morning hours to reduce possible inconvenience, while offering apologies to clients for the problems such interventions may cause. The Cuban telecommunications enterprise has received a lot of criticism lately for the high prices of its mobile phone and Internet services, to whose 4G network more than a million users have already connected. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/more-than-a-million-cubans-connect-to-internet-through-4g/ The entity’s commercial vice president, Hilda Arias, declared last Friday that so far more than 3.7 million mobile Internet services have been provided on the island, and acknowledged that the price continues to be the subject of complaints from its users. The price reduction is a “constant demand” from ETECSA’s clients, and “although it is not enough, since 2013, when...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba plans to restart in September the current school year, interrupted because of COVID-19, while maintaining televised classes for all educational levels, Education Minister Ena Elsa Velázquez reported this Tuesday. Velázquez cleared the doubts about the return to the classrooms in an appearance on the Mesa Redonda TV program, where she assured that the “advisable thing” is to wait three months before reopening the schools, closed at the end of last March because of the epidemic. https://twitter.com/PresidenciaCuba/status/1267966925163819008 The minister of education clarified that the programming of televised classes will continue, readjusted at all levels of education to prioritize the subjects with pending evaluations. She recalled that the Cubaeduca web portal and the MiclaseTV application host the contents of these lessons free of charge. “At the right time students will also be able to enjoy their vacation period,” said the minister, who announced that the study plans for the 2020-2021 school year, which will begin at the end of the current one, are already being modified. Regarding state-run daycare centers, she indicated that 30% have been kept open to ease the burden on parents with essential jobs. Enrollment in the more than 10,700 elementary, junior...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here Yesterday, COVID-19 left 15 infections on the island, although there were no deaths and four days have gone by without reports of fatalities. The new infections were all located in Havana, and 11 of them are related to the local transmission event at the AICA Laboratories, warned Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1268167891922362374 “The main focuses we have today are in work centers, which have an impact on the population. If the measures had been complied with, many of them would not have occurred,” Durán said in his briefing, where he reported that yesterday three people were discharged, for a current total amount of 1,830 recovered cases. Of the 15 infections reported today, all Cubans, 11 were asymptomatic. Again, women predominate over men (9-6). The most affected age group was 40 to 60 years, with 11 cases. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ At midnight on June 2, 507 people were hospitalized for clinical epidemiological surveillance and 1,973 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. The country has processed a total of 110,349 tests; of these, 2,107 have been positive, while the number of deaths remains at 83. Help...

Cuba and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) signed an agreement for the execution of a project to confront climate change for an amount of 119 million dollars. It will benefit vulnerable communities distributed in three of the island’s provinces. The Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) and FAO designed the project approved at the Board of the Green Climate Fund (FVC), held in Geneva, Switzerland, according to the Agecia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency. The FVC will contribute 38.2 million dollars, while the Cuban government will contribute 81.7 million in co-financing for a project that is the first in the nation supported by the Fund, and the fourth jointly formulated with the FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean, approved by that international financial mechanism. The initiative “Increasing the resilience of rural families and communities to the climate through the rehabilitation of productive territories in selected localities of the Republic of Cuba,” will be implemented in seven of the municipalities most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the Cuban provinces of Matanzas, Villa Clara and Las Tunas. Its objective is to improve food and nutrition security and increase the stability of local food production systems, employment...

With the death this Sunday night of Dr. Eugenio Suárez Utria, two Cubans have recently died in in Ecuador as a result of COVID-19. Suarez Utria had been fighting the new coronavirus for weeks until his body was defeated by the disease this Sunday night. A native of Holguín, a gastroenterologist, he had been residing in Ecuador for seven years, where he worked at the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) General Hospital, in the city of San Antonio de Machala. Just a few hours earlier, Maikel Alba Pérez, a pediatrician, specialist in the emergency medical area at the Francisco Orellana General Hospital, had lost his life. Alba Pérez also spent days fighting the virus that in Ecuador has killed more than 3,300 people and the number of infected exceeds 39,000. Maikel Alba Pérez was a native of Baracoa and lived in Ecuador since 2014, according to the Facebook page of the Association of Cuban Residents in Ecuador, which reported both deaths.  

In the first twenty-four hours of June, the Cuban health authorities recorded 9 infections while the deaths were still contained. With the data, after the rebound in late May, the pandemic-related figures again dropped. “Ten provinces, and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, have not diagnosed cases for 15 days,” said Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), who is in charge of updating these data every morning. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1267804802127364096 The 9 confirmed cases correspond to Cubans and 7 of them were related to identified cases. In two individuals, the source of infection is not specified. Women predominated over men (6 -3) and the most affected age groups were: under 40, with 3; followed by the group from 40 to 60, with 3; and over 60, with three; 66.6% of the new patients were asymptomatic. At the close of yesterday, June 1, 444 people were hospitalized for epidemiological clinical surveillance and 1,736 were under primary healthcare surveillance in their homes. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ The balance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus for Cuba has been 83 deaths and 2,092 infections until today; 1,827 people have recovered. The country has processed a total of 108,389 tests, the...

Authorities in the southern United States are continuing to adjust their plans for the hurricane season as the new coronavirus pandemic persists. The big question is: where will people fleeing the storms go? In McIntosh County, Georgia, director of Emergency Management Ty Poppell said evacuations during the pandemic will be a “nightmare,” and that he was concerned about the social distancing in shelters and buses where people would be transferred. Hurricane season officially begins on June 1, although tropical storms Arthur and Bertha were very early. Experts expect a more active season than usual. “Everything we do will be affected, in one way or another, by COVID-19,” said Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. https://oncubanews.com/mundo/ee-uu/florida/que-pasara-en-la-florida-si-se-aparece-un-huracan-en-tiempos-de-coronavirus/ Many counties are receiving federal advice and hope to use hotels as smaller-scale shelters. Others plan to use more schools and gyms. The authorities have said shelters are the last resort and urge people to stay with friends or in hotels. But mass unemployment is making hotel spending less feasible. Vice President Mike Pence told President Donald Trump three days ago that the Federal Government will ensure that state and local authorities can manage the hurricanes. “In a nutshell, Mr. President,...