Living in Cuba in times of pandemic (II)
In the second part of this series, OnCuba continues its journey through several Cuban provinces, with shared realities and different...
Two deaths from new coronavirus in Cuba in a day with 65 new contagions
Havana reported the highest number of cases, followed by Artemisa, Pinar del Río and Matanzas. The health status of 20...
Coronavirus: Cuba registers 35 new contagions and more than 3,000 recovered patients
In the last day, only two provinces reported cases: Havana, with 30, and Artemisa, with five, although the dispersion of...
With today’s 65 cases, Cuba registers the second highest number of contagions since the pandemic began
4,262 tests carried out, nine patients were discharged, seven were reported seriously ill.
Cuba in the face new outbreak of COVID-19: 59 new cases this Saturday
Cuban Health Minister José Ángel Portal Miranda confirmed during the usual Ministry of Public Health report that the country is...
Stranded in a nightmare
After the feature article published by OnCuba about Cubans and Ecuadorians who were unable to return to their place of...
COVID-19 positive cases increase in Cuba at end of week: 17 new infections
Most of the new cases correspond to two outbreaks located in Bauta, Artemisa province, and Havana, which accumulated 14 cases...
Cuba adds another nine cases of coronavirus, three imported
No deaths were reported and there were four discharges. Thus, the number of fatal victims of COVID-19 in Cuba remains...
Coronavirus in Cuba: six new cases, five of them asymptomatic
In addition, at the close of Saturday there were no deaths and only one of the 79 active cases of...
After 13 days without deaths, Cuba reports a deceased from COVID-19
The Ministry of Public Health reported seven new infections. Five patients were discharged and two were reported in serious condition.
Coronavirus subsides: Cuba reports two new infections and only 43 active cases
The Ministry of Public Health reported this Sunday two new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected to...
One deceased yesterday from COVID-19 and five new cases, none from Havana
In the last 24 hours, 7 people were discharged. There were no reports of seriously or critically ill patients
Coronavirus in Cuba: 10 new cases, third day without deaths
In addition, 25 discharges were given, with which 1,948 patients have already recovered on the island since the pandemic began.
Coronavirus on the downside: Cuba reports five new cases and no deaths
The Ministry of Public Health reported this Saturday five new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected to...
Coronavirus in Cuba: Havana reports all cases for second day in a row
The Ministry of Public Health reported this Sunday 20 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected to...
Coronavirus in Cuba: one deceased and 20 new cases today, all from Havana
Until midnight yesterday, MINSAP had registered 35 discharges, bringing the amount of recovered patients to 1,795; 3 people were still...
First case of Zika virus detected in Cuba
A Venezuelan doctor, 28, became the first person to be diagnosed with the Zika virus in Cuba. The young woman...
Cuba launches “military offensive” against Zika-spreading mosquitoes
More than 9,000 troops have been deployed in Cuba to conduct a national health campaign to eliminate Aedes Aegyptis mosquitoes,...
Good health outcomes through less privacy?
“Stop looking so nervous, you all are here for the same thing”. Just like that my attending physician told three...
More of a doctor: less of a family person?
After seven years in Venezuela, Dr. Jorge Humberto decided not to be away from his wife and daughter. Only the...
“No One is Above the Law”
For decades, differences in the standard of living of Cubans were determined, not by people’s incomes, but by the privileges...
The number one enemy of Cubans
By: Gabriela M. Fernández Before 2004, the most frequent cause of death among Cubans was related to cardiovascular problems. According...
Intimate homelands of internationalism
Reynaldo ¨Coqui¨ Villafranca must have died ten years ago, on the main promenade of Los Palacios town, when a very...
Cuba demands return of relatives of Cuban doctors in Brazil
The Ministry of Public Health of Cuba would have issued an ultimatum to doctors working in Brazil, so that their...
Cuban nurse dies of malaria in Africa
Reinaldo Villafranca Antigua, member of the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade, died Sunday in Sierra Leone victim of cerebral malaria with...
