Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuba will produce only 7,000 tons of beans in 2020, which represents just 10% of the annual demand on the island, said the head of the department of various crops of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Yojan García, quoted by the official media. Of the planned 46,000 hectares planted to …

Help us keep OnCuba alive On Wednesday night Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the south of the island of Puerto Rico, in the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds of up to 85 kilometers per hour. Meteorologists from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) project that it will pass over the island of Hispaniola this Thursday …

Help us keep OnCuba alive Although the number of hospitalizations for the SARS-CoV-2 virus amounted to 400 and that of people under surveillance in their homes reached 3,436, in the last 24 hours the new infections decreased to nine, as reported today by Cuban health authorities. During his presentation to the press, in which Dr. …

Help us keep OnCuba alive The Itolizumab monoclonal antibody, a creation of the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) that has shown its value in patients infected with coronavirus, was officially approved for use against this disease by the Cuban regulatory authority. The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED) confirmed …

Help us keep OnCuba alive This Saturday the last group of health collaborators who remained in Mexico working with patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus for three months returned to Cuba. Composed of 578 specialists, including 265 doctors, 285 nurses, seven graduates in hygiene and epidemiology and ten electromedical engineers, the entire brigade is already on …

A total of 17 new COVID-19 positive cases was registered in Cuba, the highest number in the week, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) confirmed at the close of this Sunday, for a total of 2,495 patients confirmed with the new coronavirus. As in the previous day, no deaths were reported. Four medical discharges were …

The economic measures announced by the Cuban government on July 16 reflect the authorities’ awareness of the greatest challenges for the Cuban economy and the dimensions where their actions can make a difference today, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. These would be to: 1) mitigate the external vulnerability caused both by its own …

Cuba has been able to send thousands of doctors and nurses overseas to help other countries fight COVID-19. That is because the island nation has had huge success containing the virus domestically, with a rigorous active screening campaign and strict restrictions. Since the pandemic began, the country has recorded just over 2, 400 cases and …

HAVANA, Jul 22 (PL ) The Cuban Government is facilitating exports and imports to non-state businesses in order to boost the country’s trade and economy, official sources said on Wednesday. The general director of foreign trade at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX), Vivian Herrera, said that 382 Cuban non-state businesses, including …