The Ministers of Public Health, of Transportation, and of Communications appear this Wednesday at the Round Table to report on the implementation in their respective sectors of the new measures to confront the COVID-19.
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The March 31 report indicates that 26 new cases were confirmed positive, among 444 patients tested during the previous 24 hours, including 25 Cuban citizens and one from abroad, for a total of 212.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, said today that the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States constitutes a violation of the human rights of the Cuban people, with regard to the the impediment for the arrival of a Chinese donation with medical supplies.
Cuba is extending scope of testing for the detection of new positive cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, announced on Tuesday in Francisco Durán, director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, presided a meeting of the Political Bureau yesterday, during which new measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 were also approved.
Cuba has quarantine one of its provinces on Tuesday, for the first time since the presence of Covid-19 in the country was reported, in an attempt to prevent Covid-19 cases from increasing.
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported today on 16 other confirmed cases of Covid-19, for which the number of positive cases rises to 186 on the Caribbean island.
To learn about the scope of the new decisions, Gustavo Rodriguez Rollero, Minister of Agriculture, and Manuel Santiago Sobrino Martinez, Minister of the Food Industry, appear at the Round Table.
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported today that 31 new cases with the Covid-19 disease were confirmed in this country, 29 of them Cuban, for a total of 170 affected patients.
In an effort to stop the spread of the COVID-19, all the regular and charter flights to and from Russia will be suspended starting this March 27th, including those flights to and from Cuba, by order of the Government of that nation to the Federal Air Transport Agency.
In the midst of the battle that Cuba has undertaken to control the expansion of the COVID-19 in the national territory, the Council of Ministers, headed by the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz; met this week, as it usually does every month, to make decisions about the economic and social life of the nation.
The Ministry of Public Health reports that, when the most recent report closed yesterday March 26, 13 new Covid-19 cases had been confirmed in Cuba, for a total of 80.
Díaz-Canel emphasizes majority support for measures adopted and recognized the hard work of health personnel in Cuba and around the world.