Cuba closed March with 26 new infections, while there were no deaths due to COVID-19, as reported by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) this Wednesday. Among the confirmed cases, 25 are Cuban and one is a foreigner (Spain). Of the Cubans diagnosed, 8 had the source of infection outside the country: United States and Mexico (3 each), Chile and Spain (one each); 10 were contacts of confirmed cases and 7 were in contact with travelers from abroad. Most of the new positive cases are registered in Havana (9), Santiago de Cuba (4), Villa Clara (3) and Camagüey (3), Holguín (2) and Sancti Spíritus (2), Pinar del Río (1) and Las Tunas (1). Two minors are on the list, a 15-year-old girl in Florida, Camagüey, and a four-month-old baby in Santiago de Cuba. Both have a satisfactory evolution. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1245366676155236352 Yesterday there were four new medical discharges, including that of a 94-year-old Cuban. The total of discharged now amounted to 12. Four critically ill and one seriously ill patient are reported. The data at the close of March 31, marks the beginning of April with a total of 212 cases and 6 deaths, which is why the government continues to apply...

In the nightly edition of this Tuesday’s National Television Newscast it was officially announced that by agreement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, Cuba has adopted a set of new measures, including suspending the May Day parade and postponing the next Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP). Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero announced the suspension of passenger flights. Considering the rise of the pandemic in the world, it was considered that these arrivals constitute a risk for Cubans. At the meeting to analyze the implementation of the plan to confront the new coronavirus in Cuba, the prime minister reported that it was also decided to withdraw foreign vessels from national territorial waters. He said that this measure will take effect as of next Thursday, although support to the crews of ships with sick travelers will continue to be provided. Photo: Radio Reloj. In addition, at the request of the Provincial Defense Council of Pinar del Río, the Ministry of Public Health and the National Defense Council decreed restrictive isolation measures in the Camilo Cienfuegos Community of Consolación del Sur, and activated the Defense Zone. At the press conference of the Ministry of Public Health, it...

The Pinar del Río government decreed quarantine for the El Canal People’s Council, in the municipality of Consolación del Sur, after learning of a new case of local transmission of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This is the first community in Cuba that is isolated due to the epidemic. The first secretary of the Communist Party in the province of Pinar del Río, where the People’s Council is quarantined, said that “the screenings must be intensified,” as well as the study of positive cases, in addition to “studying all the potentials to create capacities for isolation.” https://www.facebook.com/AMPPC.Sur/posts/2595067174093627 In the Camilo Cienfuegos community, located in El Canal, several local infections of the virus occurred with a couple who returned from Mexico and was confirmed with COVID-19. Last Friday, the disease was diagnosed in a minor patient, the couple's son, and 48 contacts of the infected child were identified, according to information published by local media. On Sunday, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) confirmed in its report the contagion of another woman, 61, also residing in Consolación del Sur, a municipality in Pinar del Rio with a population of around 88,500 inhabitants. A total of 33 contacts of that patient...

Six persons escaped this weekend from an isolation center for suspected coronavirus cases in Sancti Spíritus province and were captured in less than 24 hours, the local newspaper Escambray reported. The alleged violators of the quarantine will be subjected to a criminal process, by which they could face sanctions of between three months and one year of prison, or fines of 100 to 300 quotas, said the municipality’s prosecutor, Anamaris Conde, cited by the source. https://twitter.com/hacemos_cuba/status/1243183511181438976 The six persons escaped this Saturday from an isolation center located at the Alberto Delgado school, in the municipality of Sancti Spíritus. A doctor and a nurse, who carried out routine rounds to check if any of the admitted patients showed respiratory symptoms, discovered their beds were empty. After searching other rooms and corridors of the facility, they notified the authorities, who immediately deployed to capture them. In less than 24 hours the patients were found in their homes and returned to the isolation center. “The penal report has been made against these persons by the legal authorities and they have been charged,” said the prosecutor. Violating the sanitary provisions established in the middle of the epidemic of coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, constitutes a...

This Tuesday, Cuba added 16 positive cases to the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of SARS-Cov-2 virus infections to 186, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) at a press conference, where two new deaths were also reported. The figure, therefore, rises to 6 deaths from this disease. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1245006825952546817 Among the 16 confirmed new cases up until today, 14 are Cuban and two are foreigners. “Of the Cubans diagnosed, six have a source of infection abroad: United States (3), Spain, Canada and France (one each), seven had contact with confirmed cases and one was a contact of travelers from abroad (Spain),” explains the note that MINSAP also publishes on its website. Five are minors in this new group: two French children aged 11 and 14; and three Cubans, ages 8, 16 and 7. The 7-month-old girl, resident in Aguada de Pasajeros municipality, Cienfuegos, reported yesterday, continues to evolve favorably, and she is being treated with extreme care. It was also reported that of all those diagnosed on the island to date, 165 people present stable clinical evolution. Meanwhile, the death toll rose to six, after the two deaths reported yesterday. Both cases are Cubans: a 63-year-old patient, admitted...

The Generalitat Valenciana is contemplating the possibility of requesting health professionals from other countries, such as Cuba, if the situation caused by COVID-19 is prolonged, in order to guarantee the staff of the Community of Valencia “moments of rest” and that they don’t suffer as much pressure while providing care. This was stated this Monday at a press conference by Minister of Health Ana Barceló, who said that work is underway to ensure that at a certain time it may be necessary to “refresh” the local health teams due to the pressure of care and give them some time off. “There are hospitals that have more pressure and if this is prolonged, we need them not to live with so much pressure and have moments of rest,” according to the minister, who added that they have in mind “the possibility of being able to bring professionals from another country if necessary.” https://twitter.com/GVAsanitat/status/1244551416024367109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1244551416024367109&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fvalencia-considera-solicitar-medicos-a-cuba-para-enfrentar-la-pandemia%2F Barceló also affirmed that in principle the Generalitat would contemplate requesting reinforcements from Cuba, because of the language and to facilitate communication, but China and other countries are also considered, with professionals who speak English, but guaranteeing that there can be “fluid” communication with the Spanish staff. This...

A call was circulating yesterday on social networks for Cubans to go out to their balconies and windows to applaud the doctors who are already fighting against COVID-19. “Eternal applause to Cuban and world doctors. Today at 9.00 pm, just after the cannon blast, we pay tribute. A beautiful, moving gesture we’ll continue to repeat every night,” wrote Cuban journalist Raúl Rodríguez on his Facebook account. The date is at 9 at night, from now on, every day. It’s the emblematic hour for Havanans, after they hear the boom and feel the tremor that in many areas of the city left by the cannon blast, night after night, from the fortress of La Cabaña at the entrance to the bay. A custom that comes from the times of the colony, when the city was surrounded by a wall, and the cannon blast served to warn of the closing of its doors. “I just confessed it to some friends: I went out, applauded, and it was the moment of greatest happiness in the last days. Surely there will be more of us tomorrow,” wrote Tania Pino, professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Havana, also on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/camila.fernandezdelvalle/videos/2847871771968035/?t=0...

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on the island at the close of this Sunday, bringing the total number of confirmed patients to 170. The health authorities reported that 342 people were studied yesterday, of which 29 Cubans and two foreigners were diagnosed: a 4-year-old American boy, who was visiting his grandparents in the city of Bayamo, Granma province, and a Chinese citizen who works in the Mariel Special Development Zone, who is a direct contact with a previously confirmed case. The daily report also records that 161 patients are currently hospitalized, of which 153 show a stable clinical evolution, while three are in critical condition and five are in serious condition. In addition, a fourth deceased is reported, a 63-year-old Cuban resident in the municipality of Venezuela, Ciego de Ávila province, with a history of diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure, who had denied the presence of symptoms and when he went to the doctor he already had acute respiratory symptoms, with alarming signs, the note from MINSAP said. Of the remaining cases, four had already been discharged and one American was evacuated to his country. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1244642352330878976 According to the report, until...

Their eyes look tired, their cheekbones are raw because of the protective masks and they don't smile. The doctors and nurses at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, uniforms, gloves and hair nets: the flimsy armor that they put on at the start of each shift as the only barrier against contagion. Mirko Perruzza, 43, nurse at the COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic in Rome. Photo: Domenico Stinellis/AP. The Associated Press photographers dispersed on Friday to photograph them during their short breaks from the Intensive Care Units in the cities of Bergamo and Brescia, in the Lombardy region, and in Rome. Director of the Intensive Care Unit Grabriele Tomasoni, 65, poses for a portrait at the Brescia Spedali Civil Hospital in Brescia, Italy. Photo: Luca Bruno/AP. In each case, doctors, nurses, and paramedics posed in front of moss-green surgical drapes, the bland background of their sterile wards. Friday was a bad day: Italy recorded the highest number of deaths since the coronavirus outbreak exploded in the country five weeks ago, adding 969 victims to increase the highest number of COVID-19 to 9,134. Lombardy registered 541 of them. Dr. Marta Catoni, 33, immunologist...

Churches in Cuba and the United States have joined in a petition to the United States government to lift the financial and commercial embargo on the country in the face of the crisis caused by the global pandemic of the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 disease. “We request the Government of the United States to immediately lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade that for more than 60 years has been imposed on Cuba as well as on other nations,” the Cuban Council of Churches and its U.S. counterpart requested in a statement released this Sunday. They also asked that “all manipulation and use of political and economic interests stop” in the face of the current global humanitarian crisis, exacerbated and made visible by the COVID-19 pandemic. They also extended their call to the international ecumenical movement, to all churches and religions in the United States itself and the world, to governments, to the United Nations, and to all people of good will, to join the effort for a global petition for the “immediate” lifting of the “blockade,” as that Washington policy is called in Cuba. The Cuban and U.S. Councils of Churches also declare themselves in favor of ceasing all...

A Cuban medical brigade made a stopover in Madrid this Sunday, from where they will go to the Principality of Andorra to provide support in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in that European country. “Spontaneously, at the airport’s exit, passengers began to applaud them and taxis to honk their horns, in well-deserved tribute to health workers, and especially to the Cubans, whom they immediately identified,” wrote the Cuban ambassador in Spain, Gustavo Machín, in Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/gustavo.machin.5855/posts/670103057076772 The Cuban health brigade, made up of 39 health professionals, is the second to go to Europe and the thirteenth that the island has sent to other countries since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency reported. Cuba guarantees immediate health care for all its citizens at no cost and offers its solidarity aid to those who need it, while the governments of the planet face the dilemma of preserving the health of people or the economy, said Dr. Luis Enrique Pérez, head of the brigade, quoted by the source. The Andorran minister of health announced this Saturday that in order to face a possible increase in the number of coronavirus patients in that country, and especially the...

Javier Ernesto Jiménez Scull, the first Cuban athlete to be diagnosed with COVID-19, was discharged from the hospital after passing the epidemiological surveillance stage without difficulties, according to the Cuban website Jit. The 31-year-old player hired at the Saaremaa VK club in Estonia tested positive days ago in Estonia, which currently has more than 400 cases. Despite being asymptomatic, he underwent the test because he was the contact of the technical director of the Estonian team, who tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from a match played in Italy, epicenter of the pandemic in Europe. The vice president of the Cuban Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) and head of the Cuban Volleyball Federation, Ariel Saínz, reported that the news came through constant online communication with the Cuban athlete. “He maintains a good state of mind and is aware of the efforts we made for his return, together with his club, the federation of that nation and our embassy there, which has been very important in all this process,” said the Cuban INDER representative in the published note. “Now the most important thing is that he is fine and follows the indications of the specialists in detail,” said...

In Cuba, 20 new COVID-19 positive cases were registered at the close of the night of this Saturday, bringing the total number of people infected with the coronavirus to 139, Cuban Minister of Public Health José Angel Portal reported this Sunday. The minister specified in a press conference that 2,317 patients have been admitted to health facilities, of which 684 are suspects. Another 30,642 people remain isolated in their homes, under epidemiological surveillance by primary health care professionals. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1244302497797242884 In the report of the closing of the night of this Saturday, three patients were reported in critical condition and another five serious. There are no new deaths from COVID-19, according to the minister. Portal said that of the 139 confirmed cases, 114 are Cuban. Of these, 73 returned from various countries in the incubation phase. The rest of the local patients were infested through contacts with foreigners or with people who had contact with them. This Saturday 297 cases were studied, of which 20 samples were positive. So far, a total of 1,665 diagnostic test samples of the disease have been performed. The patients reported in critical condition are a 63-year-old Cuban citizen, admitted to the Pedro Kourí Institute of...

The Cuban government confirmed in a press conference of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) the existence of 39 new cases of COVID-19 and the number of infected persons is 119. Of that number, the disease is active in 112 of them since 4 have recovered and three others have died. Five minors are reported among the new cases. Of these, four remain hospitalized in the Manuel Fajardo Hospital, in Villa Clara province, and their evolution is satisfactory. Three are boys, 11, 15 and 14 years old. The first two came from the United States and presented symptoms on the island, where they have been hospitalized. Meanwhile, the 14-year-old boy was infected by a positive contact in Placetas. The only female in this group is 12 years old, she is a resident of the Camajuaní municipality. The youngest person in the group is a 6-year-old Cuban from Baraguá municipality, Ciego de Ávila province, from contact with his cousin, an asymptomatic traveler from the United States who visited him between March 13 and 18. He showed symptoms on the 20th, was detected with respiratory symptoms in the investigation on the 21st, and was referred and hospitalized in the isolation center of...

Several U.S. organizations asked the government of that country to temporarily suspend the economic sanctions against Cuba, in view of the threat of the coronavirus pandemic caused by COVID-19. In a statement issued this Thursday, the organizations called for the elimination of ceilings imposed by the Donald Trump administration on sending remittances to Cuba, as well as the sanctions that prevent donations of medicines and medical equipment and those that restrict financial transactions. https://twitter.com/WOLA_org/status/1243300473974804483 The statement, signed by eight organizations based in the United States, asks Washington to temporarily eliminate sanctions that prevent aid from other countries to Cuba, including that which prevents sales to the island of equipment containing 10% of the parts or pieces with U.S. patent. The statement added that the U.S. government’s measures cause many foreign companies to hesitate to do business with Cuba. Lastly, it requested the suspension of sanctions that restrict support for the Cuban people, alleging that although there is an exemption to export certain items to the island, the U.S. Department of Commerce requires exporting entities to demonstrate that these goods will only benefit the Cuban people, and not the government or Communist Party of Cuba officials. https://oncubanews.com/cuba-ee-uu/companias-cancelan-negocios-con-cuba-por-temor-a-sanciones-de-eeuu/ The organizations involved in...

The Cuban government announced a group of economic measures for the current situation in the country, conditioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease of which as of this Friday 80 cases had already been confirmed on the island. Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil Fernández commented on the Mesa Redonda television program about the global economy’s crisis due to the coronavirus, a situation to which Cuba is exposed since it has, he said, an open economy, in addition to the effects of the U.S. embargo. “We are exposed, like the rest of the countries, to an unforeseeable scenario and to which we must respond with an organized strategy, not with improvisation, but with a set of measures and decisions that allow us to face this pandemic at the lowest possible economic cost and recover as soon as possible,” he said, according to statements cited by the Cubadebate site. In that order, he outlined several government decisions aimed at dealing with the problem with the lowest possible costs. Among these, he said that material and financial resources would be allocated to agriculture as a priority for the production of rice, plantain, beans, corn, eggs and pork. “It does not mean,”...

When updating the situation of the coronavirus in Cuba this Friday, Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal Miranda reported “the first local transmission case on the island, specifically in the municipality of Cárdenas, Matanzas province.” According to a report released on Cuban television, the fact is related to one of the cases diagnosed on March 21: that of an entertainer from a Varadero hotel. His source of contagion, it was said, was a group of Italian tourists. From this patient, 53 contacts were identified, which are isolated and under epidemiological surveillance. In recent days, four family members and a friend were positive for the coronavirus. The minister said that the actions to confront this scenario have also been contemplated in the plan to confront and control the new coronavirus, which the island’s government has been executing and updating for weeks. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/coronavirus-in-cuba-13-new-cases-this-thursday-a-total-of-80/ Portal Miranda insisted on the importance of people incorporating the idea of ​​reporting any symptoms and immediately isolating themselves from family and friends. Until this Thursday, Cuba had reported 80 confirmed cases of COVID-19, while keeping more than a thousand people hospitalized suspected of having the disease or contact with those infected with respiratory diseases.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 on the island at the close of this Thursday, bringing the number of infected to 80. Of this number, 73 remain hospitalized, while three people were discharged, so there are already 4 recovered patients. In addition, two deaths are reported―the second of them in the early hours of Thursday―and one evacuated to the United States. Among those hospitalized, 70 have a stable clinical evolution, according to MINSAP, while one is in critical condition―a 63-year-old Cuban who suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and ischemic heart disease―and two reported severe: a 38-year-old Cuban and a 72-year-old Frenchman, with various pre-existing conditions. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1243559327849418759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1243559327849418759&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fcuba%2Fcoronavirus-en-cuba-13-casos-nuevos-este-jueves-80-en-total%2F Among the new cases are five Cuban children and adolescents, aged between 7 and 17, who have come from abroad or had contact with a previously confirmed case. Also two young men of 21 and 24 years old, another two of 33, one of 48, another of 53 and an elderly woman of 92. In total, of the 12 Cubans confirmed with the disease this Thursday, six are men and the same number are women. Seven arrived from abroad and five had contact with other confirmed...

The Argentine embassy in Havana agreed to establish with Cubana de Aviación an airlift for sanitary evacuation of Argentine citizens currently in Cuba. The ambassador of that country, Javier Figueroa, said that the first two flights would depart Thursday, March 26 and Sunday, March 29, while other operations are being prepared for future departures. Argentine tourists stranded in Cuba. Photo: Infobae. The diplomat described the operation as “very complex,” and pointed out that there are cases that involve risk of life, in addition to pregnant women, minors and vulnerable elderly people. He added that they plan to evacuate all the citizens of that country who are visiting the island, although this will be based on the severity of the case. On March 23, the ambassador reported that 1,500 of his compatriots were on the island due to restrictions placed on airlines to land in Buenos Aires due to the health emergency caused by the coronavirus. “We have confirmed 1,500 Argentines who are stranded in Cuba,” Figueroa told the Página 12 newspaper. According to various press reports , today that number is 900.

The first COVID-19 patient healed in Cuba thanked the medical staff who treated him during his hospitalization after testing positive for the disease. “They were my parents, my brothers, my friends,” he said in an interview published by the official Granma newspaper. Álvarez, 25 years old, was the first Cuban coronavirus carrier reported on the island, after receiving his wife, a Bolivian citizen residing in Milan, Italy. Previously, three Italian tourists had been confirmed, one of whom died. He said that his couple had arrived in Cuba with no apparent symptoms of the disease, but after a few days both began to experience slight respiratory problems. Both went to a healthcare center in the city of Santa Clara, where Álvarez lives; there they were declared as suspects and sent to an isolation center. They were then transferred to the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), in Havana, where the young man tested positive for the disease. https://oncubanews.com/especiales/especial-sobre-la-covid-19/ “Imagine how I felt then; it was the end of the world for me. I was scared, I thought in the worst, in my family, in my little girl Ana Sofía, only one-year-old. But I had the strength to resist in the...

The Cuban Telecommunications Enterprise (ETECSA)  advised its clients not to use “large volumes of data on the mobile network” at a time when traffic has shot up on the island due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “To think as a country is to maintain the stability of our systems to guarantee services to our population. We advise you not to use large volumes of data on the mobile network, so that the traffic capacity can be shared among all,” said the executive president of the state enterprise, Mayra Arevich, quoted by the official Cubadebate site. According to the official, since three days ago there has been a growth in traffic of more than 10% of additional volume on mobile networks, at a time when the government has asked Cubans to stay as long as possible in their homes and practice social isolation. Added to this is the growing concern of people about the expansion of the coronavirus outbreak, which this Thursday had 67 confirmed cases and two deaths in Cuba, and their desire to communicate with family and friends living in other countries affected by the disease. Arevich reported through the Twitter social network that ETECSA “is engaged in guaranteeing the...

Given the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Cuba is reorganizing its health services to avoid the unnecessary influx of people to health institutions, Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal reported this Tuesday. During his appearance in the Mesa Redonda television program, the Cuban minister affirmed that visits to the doctor by vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, children and the elderly will continue and will be intensified. Likewise, transplant surgical operations, oncological surgeries and other vital services will continue to be carried out, according to statements cited by the Agencia Cubana de Noticias news agency. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1242594138291417088 From now on, stomatology clinics will only offer emergency services, while spaces are being prepared within centers dedicated to the isolation of suspected patients for stomatological care, if necessary. Portal added that the Ministry of Transportation will take charge of the transfer to the isolation centers of travelers arriving on the island, and highlighted the preparation and stability of the personnel in these institutions. https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/cuba-registers-21-positive-cases-of-coronavirus-and-decides-to-close-its-borders-to-tourism/ The Cuban government decreed the closure of the border to international tourism as of Tuesday, but it will receive all residents on the island, who must remain in centers prepared for a health quarantine, under observation for 14...

Cuba closed this Wednesday with 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, as reported by the island's Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The new positive cases bring the number to 67. In addition, it reported its second death, a 45-year-old Russian tourist with a history of diabetes, who was in critical condition. According to the note from MINSAP, there are 1,603 patients, 148 foreigners and 1,455 Cubans, hospitalized for clinical-epidemiological surveillance in the isolation and care centers created for this purpose. Another 36,056 people are under primary health care surveillance in their homes. https://twitter.com/MINSAPCuba/status/1243191487480897537 At the close of yesterday, March 25, 10 new cases were confirmed, for a total of 67 in the country. A total of 1,603 patients are hospitalized for clinical-epidemiological surveillance 👉https://t.co/KqrHGWWOEb pic.twitter.com/zPSCRLKSRN ―Cuban Ministry of Public Health (@MINSAPCuba) March 26, 2020 After the death of a second patient, 63 remain in hospital, of which one continues to be reported in critical condition and another was reported as serious, the latter only 38 years old and with a diagnosed right-base pneumonia. Both are Cuban. MINSAP explained that “medical teams of specialists in intensive care and a group of experts from the Ministry of Public Health maintain permanent care...

The Correos de Cuba business group reported on Wednesday that no correspondence, parcels or parcels will be received or sent to and from outside the island, Cubadebate reported. The state entity reported on its website that its clients will be warned of possible delays in the postal service within Cuban territory, due to the panorama caused by the coronavirus pandemic. https://twitter.com/CorreosdeCuba/status/1242825052535562242 Correos de Cuba will return to senders―at no extra cost―shipments that the entity cannot transfer to their destinations, according to the entity's statement. According to the postal services business group, “about 150 nations, more than 70% of the members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), have reported contagious with the new coronavirus SARS CoV-2,” which is why they have interrupted the postal service. In addition, the note explains that more than 15 airlines have suspended or limited their flights to different countries in various regions of the world, causing delays in mail and making it impossible to maintain a regular exchange. Postal operators that maintain exchanges with the Cuban state entity have presented delays in their operations due to the sanitary measures adopted by the governments of several countries, aimed at stopping the coronavirus pandemic. Correos de Cuba affirmed...

In a note released this Wednesday, March 25, the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) reported that as part of the measures to prevent and control the new coronavirus, operations and activities have been suspended in houses of culture, libraries, museums, art galleries and bookstores. “Therefore,” says the note, “services and activities, including appreciation and training workshops, book sales, exhibitions, among other public actions, have stopped and the internal functioning of these cultural institutions will only be maintained in a reduced way.” https://youtu.be/NA4iFJOorbs The measures will last until April 30, when the pertinence of their operation will be assessed depending on the epidemiological situation. As part of these regulations against the virus, on March 14 MINCULT announced a first set of measures, including postponing national and international artistic events with large crowds.