Havana, April 23 (RHC)-- The 22nd brigade of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics left on Wednesday for the African country of Cape Verde.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- Dr. Disnaldo Raúl Pérez González, general director of the National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, proposed to the Provincial Defense Council (CDP) of Havana a strategy for social distancing that would make it possible to anticipate the infection and transmission of COVID-19.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- The Cuban Council of State approved six decree-laws during its April 16th session, with the presence of President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, according to parliamentary sources.... More


Nicosia, April 22 (RHC)-- The Association of Cuban Residents in Cyprus demanded the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean nation and condemned Washington's actions to discredit the island's medical cooperation around the world.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- Alpidio Alonso, Cuban Minister of Culture, spoke at a virtual meeting of ministers of the sector convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).... More


Dr. Francisco Duran

Havana, April 22(RHC) With the passing of two COVID-19 patients on Tuesday, Cuba accumulates 40 deaths since the first people tested positive on the island last March 11. ... More


Caracas, April 22 (RHC)-- Cuban health professionals remain deployed fighting the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Venezuela, stated Reinol Garcia, head of the Cuban medical mission in Caracas.... More


Tucson, April 22 (RHC)-- The only country that has demonstrated genuine internationalism has been Cuba, said U.S. philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky as he analyzed the lessons of the new coronavirus pandemic present today worldwide.... More


Luanda, April 22 (RHC)-- Cuban healthcare professionals, most of them specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine (MGI), began to arrive in the provinces of Angola to join the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to local press reports in Luanda.  The media has been covering of the arrival of brigade members in various provinces of Angola.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 52 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 1,189 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- The General Secretary of the Confederation of Cuban Workers -- Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) -- Ulises Guilarte, expressed appreciation for the international solidarity of trade union organizations and progressive forces in the struggle against the U.S. blockade.... More


London, April 22 (RHC)-- Cubans living in the United Kingdom are appealing to the generosity of people to help their fellow Cubans back home build the artificial respirators that they are forbidden to acquire by the U.S. blockade.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and with a message to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba affirmed it was united "with all the revolutionaries of the world" in the reverent memory of the founder and leader of the legendary October Socialist Revolution.... More


Havana, April 22 (RHC)-- Cuba is administering plasma from people recovered from COVID-19 to treat seriously ill patients, a therapy that follows the established standards and rigor, it was reported on the prime-time TV and radio program "Mesa Redonda."... More


Geneva, April 22 (RHC)-- Swiss organizations have denounced the impossibility of making donations to Cuba to combat COVID-19 due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean nation, according to local media.... More


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