Articles of Covid-19

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US adds popular Cuban debit card to restricted list

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Monday that Cuba’s military controls American International Services and uses parent company FINCIMEX and other entities to “charge fees and manipulate the remittance and foreign currency market…The profits earned from these operations disproportionately benefit the Cuban military, furthering repression of the Cuban people and funding Cuba’s meddling in Venezuela.

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Council of Ministers examines the economic-social agenda and approves new measures for the business sector

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This is how the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, reflected during the ordinary session of the Council of Ministers, corresponding to the month of September, where he referred to the commendable battle that the nation is waging against COVID-19 and the way in which that the Government should resume the work systems, at all levels, even with the presence of the disease.

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Holguín increases PCR testing capacity

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The facility that will house the Molecular Engineering Laboratory, to process PCR test samples in the eastern province of Holguín, is preparing to receive and install the necessary medical equipment. Currently underway at the site, where the laboratory will process up to 1,000 tests in 24 hours, is the required civil construction.

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Asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 addressed in Cuba’s strategy to reduce the risk of infection

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Over the past six months, the country has worked tirelessly to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. Our scientists, health authorities, and government have spared no effort to stop a highly contagious disease, that proliferates and kills if any precautionary measure is overlooked. The SARS-COV-2 virus is spread by contact with droplets that are expelled from the mouth and nose of an infected individual.

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Actions to contain contagions in Cuba

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Five thousand two hundred and seventy people had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba until last September 22, a day in which 48 new positive cases were reported , 29 of them in Havana and 11 corresponding to Ciego de Ávila, a province that continues showing a high spread of the disease throughout its territory.

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Intervention by Miguel Mario Díaz –Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, in the general debate of the 75th Regular Period of Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

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A global pandemic has changed everyday life drastically. From one day to the next, millions of people get infected and thousands die even when their life expectancy was longer thanks to development. Hospital systems with high-level services have collapsed and the health structures of poor countries are affected by their chronic lack of capacity.

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The National Botanical Garden grows outward and inward

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The National Botanical Garden is closed to the public during these tight times, having broken its visitation record for one day after it reopened in the summer. But this group does not stop in the face of adversity. Their projections grow outward and inward of that beautiful place in the city.

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Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the foundation ceremony of the ‘Henry Reeve’ International Contingent of Doctors

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Speech delivered by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the foundation ceremony of the ‘Henry Reeve’ International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, and the national graduation of students of Medical Sciences, in the Ciudad Deportiva, on September 19, 2005.

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The best way to protect children from COVID-19 is to avoid exposing them to infection

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Although children have clearly demonstrated just how responsible and disciplined they can be – on occasion even more so than the adults around them – they are not capable of assimilating the magnitude of the risks created by the presence of COVID-19 in our country. This, of course, means that their safety, and specifically their health.

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Second group of volunteers join Soberana clinical trials

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Twenty more Cubans joined the short history of Soberana 01, the country’s first candidate vaccine against COVID-19, on September 2, according to reports from Naturaleza Secreta. This group, composed of volunteers between 60 and 80 years of age, is the second to receive the first dose of the much awaited vaccine.