The Minister of Education, Ena Elsa Velázquez, said this Friday on the Mesa Redonda television program that the school year will resume in all the country’s provinces on September 1st, with the exception of Havana, given its current epidemiological situation. She reported that managers and workers are returning to educational institutions in a first phase …

Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuba is working on the development of its own vaccine to combat the new coronavirus at the same time that it negotiates with Russia the manufacture on the Island of the vaccine registered by the Eurasian nation’s scientists. “There are several countries working on that … Our country is working …

Ruhama Fernandez, a 21-year-old Cuban “YouTuber,” announced on Aug. 3 that she had been denied a passport to receive an international award and visit her parents in the United States. … Click to Continue »

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A note published on the website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) recalls that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba’s borders remain closed. Humanitarian flights are excepted from this measure, as well as Cuban citizens residing in the national territory who were stranded in other countries at the time of the epidemic’s outbreak …

The behavior of COVID-19 in Cuba in recent days continues to be “unfavorable,” according to Dr. Francisco Duran during his daily appearance, where he reported that of the 3,485 tests made on Sunday, 24 were positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. All are Cuban, 16 were contacts of confirmed cases, in three individuals the source of …