Caracas, March 18 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez denounced the restriction of the executive vice-presidency's official profile on Twitter this week. According to Rodríguez, the account was used for informing citizens about the measures and actions against COVID-19.... More
The World Health Organization (WHO), has insisted that testing for COVID-19 is the key to containing the spread of the virus. ... More
Havana, March 18 (RHC)--The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported that in the early hours of this Wednesday, the 61-year-old Italian patient who was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) died due to COVID-19.... More
Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- The United States has announced a new round of sanctions against Iran as part of its so-called "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic Republic. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that Washington had blacklisted three Iranian entities for engaging in what he called “significant transactions” to trade in Iranian petrochemicals.... More
Beijing, March 18 (RHC)-- China's National Health Commission has released its latest data on the outbreak there -- 13 new confirmed cases were reported on Tuesday, down from 21 cases the day before. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in mainland China to 80,894, the health authority said in a statement.... More
Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, acknowledged on Tuesday the contribution of the island's universities to the economic and social development of the country.... More
Havana, March 18 (RHC) -- Mexico will recreate in a children's animated film the life of Cuban singer-songwriter, Compay Segundo, for the 114th anniversary of his birth... More
Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuba has full capacity to supply Interferon alpha 2B and other 22 medicines to the national health system in the fight and treatment of COVID-19. It is also s working on a vaccine against that disease.... More
Havana, March 18 (RHC)-- Cuban authorities are receiving this Wednesday the travelers and crew of the British cruise ship MS Braemar, with five Covid-19 patients, for their immediate repatriation to the United Kingdom.... More
Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Dominic Raab, thanked the Cuban government for allowing the arrival of the cruise ship MS Braemar, with passengers affected by the Covid-19, to the port of Mariel.... More
Havana, March 17 (RHC)-- The 11th Congress of the Union of Young Communists, scheduled for the first days of April in Havana, is among the events that were postponed due to the situation with the COVID-19 in Cuba, according to a meeting headed by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday.... More
Havana, March 17 (RHC)--In the last 24 hours, two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the national territory, for a cumulative total of seven.... More
Caracas, March 18 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza reported on Tuesday that the government of President Nicolas Maduro asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a financing facility for $5 billion U$D from the emergency fund of the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI).... More
La Paz, March 18 (RHC)-- In Bolivia, the second constitutional chamber of the Bolivian Plurinational Constitutional Court, will hold a hearing to consider a legal appeal proposed by the Movement to Socialism Party in favor of the candidacy of Evo Morales.... More
Santiago de Chile, March 18 (RHC)-- The mayor of the Chilean municipality of Recoleta --Daniel Jadue -- has announced that through the People's Pharmacies initiative they will begin importing Cuban medicine in order to help patients infected with the novel coronavirus. ... More
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