HAVANA – Cuba reported 548 COVID-19 infections and one death in the last day, for a total of 1,073,504 cases and 8,501 deaths, the Ministry of Public Health said Monday. It also said there were 2,514 active cases in the Caribbean nation, a figure that has stabilized in recent weeks. The province of Holguin had … Read more
HAVANA – The number of daily coronavirus cases and deaths in Cuba has continued to fall in the past week as more than half of the country’s population has received an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose. It comes as the Caribbean nation on Sunday registered 482 coronavirus cases and one more related death, taking the national … Read more
VIÑALES, Cuba: Yurisniel Cabrera, 35, is a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, eking out a meager living from the leaves used to make Cuba’s fabled cigars. Clients can fork out more than $10 for a single cigar, but for his months of labor, Cabrera earned only a few hundred US dollars from last year’s harvest. This year, … Read more
HAVANA – Cuba registered no deaths related to COVID-19 in the past day, keeping the national death toll at 8,498, the Ministry of Public Health said Friday. According to its daily report, there were 638 COVID-19 infections recorded in the same day, for a total of 1,071,964 cases. In addition, there were 2,331 active cases … Read more
HAVANA – Cuba saw no COVID-19 deaths for the fifth day in a row, with 475 new infections reported in the past 24 hours, said the health ministry Monday. The ministry also said that the country’s total caseload now stands at 1,069,862 and the national death toll from COVID-19 keeps at 8,494. There are currently … Read more
HAVANA – Cuba on Tuesday registered the lowest number of new daily COVID-19 infections this year, detecting 467 cases and no deaths in the past 24 hours, for a total of 1,066,414 cases and 8,491 deaths, the Public Health Ministry said. According to the ministry’s daily pandemic report, there were 2,969 active cases of COVID-19 … Read more
HAVANA – Cuba reported 628 new COVID-19 cases and one more death in the last 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to 1,065,385 and the national death toll to 8,487, the Ministry of Public Health reported Sunday. There are currently 3,144 active cases, one of the lowest figures so far this year, it added. The … Read more
HAVANA: Cuba on Saturday announced a new 10 per cent tax on retail food sales, as the country endures economic woes marked by rampant inflation. The levy taking effect on Monday will target self-employed people and small- and medium-sized companies in the retail food sector, said the decree published in the official government gazette. These … Read more
HAVANA – Decreed in February 1962 and still in place today, American sanctions against Cuba is one of the world’s longest-running boycotts by one country against another. Here are five things to know about the six-decade old trade ban. – Objective: Regime change – Executive order 3447 signed by John F Kennedy on … Read more
HAVANA – Cuba reported 3,508 new cases and five more deaths from COVID-19 in the last day, bringing the total number of infections to 1,022,112 and the death toll to 8,363, the Ministry of Public Health reported Sunday. The ministry said in its daily report that there are currently 16,531 active cases in the country. … Read more
HAVANA: Cubans are no strangers to queuing for everything from bread to toothpaste, often standing for hours under a blazing sun with no access to a toilet or drinking water, and always with the fear of leaving empty-handed. It is a daily ordeal Cubans have endured for about 60 years of communist rule, now worsened by … Read more
HAVANA, (Xinhua) — Cuba on Friday entered the sixth consecutive day with no deaths due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), keeping the pandemic death toll at 8,313, the Ministry of Public Health said. Tests did detect 73 new cases of infection in the past 24 hours, raising the country’s total caseload to 963,958 since … Read more
The Cuban Ministry of Tourism announced in a statement that pandemic restrictions on tourists will be lifted effective November 15. The announcement comes as the island works to halt a recent increase in COVID-19 infections. Officials credited progress in Cuba’s immunization program, which officials believe will see “more than 90% of the total population finish … Read more
Cuba: Cuba’s vaunted public health system, which boasts more doctors per capita than any other country, has been pushed to the brink in recent months by the arrival of the coronavirus Delta variant. In a country long left relatively unscathed by the global pandemic, doctors are now battling to get their hands on oxygen and … Read more
BEIJING: China urges the US side to heed the universal appeal of the international community, immediately and completely lift the sanctions and embargo against Cuba, and immediately stop making excuses to engage in gross interference and destabilization, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Wednesday. It is reported that on July 30, the US Treasury Department … Read more
Earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck in the Caribbean. Officials issued brief warning s of tsunami and office evacuations as far away as Florida. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake happened in the areas between Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and Cuba. The depth recorded was 1km (6.2 miles). No casualties were reported, but … Read more
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has appointed the country’s first prime minister in more than 40 years – the tourism minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz. The post of prime minister was scrapped in 1976 by the then revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. It was reinstated under the rules of a new constitution for the communist-run island passed earlier … Read more
