According to official sources, this test must be done in a maximum period of 72 hours before the arrival to national territory.

Upon arrival, individuals must present a certificate to the International Health Control authorities stating that they are ‘negative for Covid-19′.

Also, all tourists interested in staying in hotels, rental houses or cheap hotels will have a PCR done at the place they will stay and will remain in isolation until they have the negative result of that test, according to the site of the Public Health Ministry.

Meanwhile, travelers residing in Cuba or visitors going to the community will be confined to a house until they find out the negative result of a second PCR carried out on the fifth day of their arrival.

The PCR requirement for entry responds to the new outbreak in the island of those diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, many of them with a source of infection abroad or associated with them, after the opening of the airports between last October and mid-November.

With 2,332 positive cases and an accumulated total of 14,188, Cuba is now experiencing its third outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a complex epidemiological situation after logging two consecutive daily records on Thursday and Friday last of 344 and 365 new positive cases.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)

The U.S. State Department reported that it had imposed visa restrictions on officials linked to Cuba’s medical missions program abroad, which the Trump administration is determined to discredit by whatever means possible.

The solidarity of the Cuban people and government was disparaged to justify the visa denial with the fallacy that members of the delegation were responsible for “exploitative” labor practices in the island nation’s medical services exports program.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry’s director general for the United States, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, referred to the hostile move tweeting, “A a huge mistake to believe that Cuban officials would betray our international medical cooperation commitments in exchange for visas to enter the United States.”

Last September, the United States Agency for International Development announced that it was offering up to three million dollars to organizations that “would investigate, gather, and analyze information” related to alleged violations of human rights of health personnel by Cuba.

“Fallacies, lies, maliciousness, and imperial arrogance that does not understand human values. Our medical missions are Cuba,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel insisted.

(Granma)