Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- On Wednesday evening, Cuba confirmed 11th COVID-19 case. According to prime time national TV news, the case is a 57-year-old Canadian male who was identified in the eastern Holguín Province, who flew there from Canada on March 14.... More


Havana, March 18 (RHC)--The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported that in the early hours of this Wednesday, the 61-year-old Italian patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine  (IPK) died due to COVID-19.... More


Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, acknowledged on Tuesday the contribution of the island's universities to the economic and social development of the country.... More


Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuban authorities are receiving this Wednesday the travelers and crew of the British cruise ship MS Braemar, with five Covid-19 patients, for their immediate repatriation to the United Kingdom.... More


Mr.  Dominic Raab

Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- The  First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Dominic Raab, thanked the Cuban government for allowing the arrival of the cruise ship MS Braemar, with passengers affected by the Covid-19, to the port of Mariel.... More


Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- The 11th Congress of the Union of Young Communists, scheduled for the first days of April in Havana, is among the events that were postponed due to the situation with the COVID-19 in Cuba, according to a meeting headed by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday.... More


Caracas, March 18 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza reported on Tuesday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a financing facility for $5 billion U$D from the emergency fund of the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI).... More


Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- Generating innovations from science and technology, and better management of scientific work in Cuba, was the main call made by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during the annual review meeting of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (CITMA) held Monday.... More


Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- Cuba is gearing up to receive the sick with Covid-19 from the British cruise ship MS Braemar, in which more than a thousand people are traveling. The ship is docking this Tuesday in Havana Bay.... More


Havana, March 16 (RHC)-- Cuba's Ministry of Education (MINED) is currently improving some measures in schools to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus without suspending the current school year.... More


Washington, March 16 (RHC)--  The Cuban Embassy in the United States will suspend all on-site consular services at the Consular Office in Washington D.C. as of this Tuesday, due to the declaration of a National Emergency, issued on March 13 by the Trump Administration.... More


Havana, March 16 (RHC)-- The management of the National Reference Laboratory of the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine -IPK-, in Havana, confirmed on Monday a new positive case of SARS CoV-2.... More


Havana, March 16 (RHC)-- At the request of British government, Cuba has authorized the docking in the country of MS Braemar cruise ship with small number of passengers testing positive for COVID-19.... More


Biopower plannt near the town of Ciro Redondo. Photo: Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez/ACN.

Havana, March 16 (RHC)--At 5:00 a.m. Sunday, the first biopower plant nbuilt in Cuba synchronized permanently with the National Power Grid (SEN )... More


Havana, Mar 15 (RHC) - Health authorities from a region in Italy and several Caribbean nations requested Cuban medical personnel on Saturday to fight the coronavirus.... More


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