With these data, the total number of contagions in Cuba since March 2020 has increased to 33,484, and the death toll rose to 240, Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), said at his regular press conference.

The specialist noted that 5,595 patients remain hospitalized nationwide.

On Sunday, Cuban laboratories made 18,981 PCR tests in real time to detect the presence of the coronavirus, totaling 2,030,386 samples so far.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)

Recent measures adopted by the country’s leadership seek to guarantee an effective control of the health provisions aimed at fighting the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak.

Since last Saturday, Cuba resumed the institutional isolation of international travelers arriving on the country, for which facilities were adapted in all provinces.

Previously, it was established the total restriction of night mobility for people and vehicles in Havana, among others; while the rest of the country reinforced sanitary control, in line with the epidemiological situation in each territory.

Based on the criteria and demands of the population, Cuba continues the implementation of the Economic Overhaul, which includes monetary unification, the elimination of certain allowances, as well as wage-price reforms.

In response to these opinions, fines were increased to price violators, and for the retention and non-commercialization of merchandise for sale, as well as to those who violated the sanitary measures in force.

Likewise, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ordered to work with responsibility and make greater efforts to comply with priority programs such as housing and food production.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)

Following months of intense, uninterrupted work, long hours of analysis, gaining experience and constantly improving measures, we are implementing a concept that we have talked about a great deal, that must now serve to support the optimal, organic functioning of the country: the new normal.

Several elements distinguish the move to this stage (for 12 Cuban provinces and the Isle of Youth special municipality), but none defines it better than the adoption of a new behavior code and life style. In other words, it is a matter of rethinking our daily lives, of incorporating all the learning that has allowed us to reach this point, not as temporary measures, but rather essential routines.

After what we have experienced, no one should be able to underestimate the danger that the virus represents. This people has enough information to know we must avoid over-confidence.

Everyone who heard the President and Prime Minister outline the new plan on Cuban television knows that leaving aside individual precaution and collective responsibility, or dismantling the health practices that prevent the spread of the epidemic, are not part of the new normal.

Let us embrace the conviction that it is possible, despite the worldwide health emergency generated, to reactivate services, production, and revitalize our economy, but let us not forget that, at the same time, we must continue, as a state and as a people, to battle COVID-19.

President Díaz-Canel defined it better than anyone: “For a people like ours, solidly united, there are no impossibles.”

(Source: Granma)