2021-05-15 22:36:11 GMT2021-05-16 06:36:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HAVANA, May 15 (Xinhua) Cuba reported on Saturday 1,383 new cases and 11 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, a new record for daily cases.
According to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, at total of 123,221 cases and 796 deaths have been registered so far. This is the time with the greatest epidemiological complexity that Cuba has faced, said the ministry s director of hygiene and epidemiology, Francisco Duran.
Havana, which reported 784 cases in its 15 municipalities, has the highest contagion rate in the country, with 446.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Starting this week, the health ministry carried out mass vaccinations against COVID-19 in seven municipalities of Havana and will continue in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba, and Isla de Juventud.
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Cuba s mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 to start in Havana with homegrown vaccines Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-10 09:42 A nurse shows a dose of the Soberana-02 COVID-19 vaccine to be used in a volunteer as part of Phase III trials of the experimental Cuban vaccine candidate in Havana, Cuba, March 31, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
HAVANA - Nearly 1.7 million people from the Cuban capital Havana will receive doses of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidates as part of an intervention study starting on Wednesday, according to local newspaper Tribuna de La Habana.
Clara Zamora, a resident of Havana s Camilo Cienfuegos district, is looking forward to receiving the first dose of Abdala COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the coming days.
2021-05-10 01:35:46 GMT2021-05-10 09:35:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HAVANA, May 9 (Xinhua) Nearly 1.7 million people from the Cuban capital Havana will receive doses of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidates as part of an intervention study starting on Wednesday, according to local newspaper Tribuna de La Habana.
Clara Zamora, a resident of Havana s Camilo Cienfuegos district, is looking forward to receiving the first dose of Abdala COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the coming days. I very much trust in the expertise of Cuban scientists and doctors, the 72-year-old said. I have no doubt the mass vaccination rollout will help the island contain the spread of the virus.
2021-05-09 22:06:00 GMT2021-05-10 06:06:00(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HAVANA, May 9 (Xinhua) Cuba exceeded 115,000 cases of the novel coronavirus disease after registering another 1,069 infections and 10 deaths, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday.
According to the ministry, with these figures, the accumulated number of cases reached 115,981 and the death toll rose to 732.
During his daily televised report, the national director of hygiene and epidemiology at the ministry, Francisco Duran, explained that 1,035 of the new reported cases were from community transmission.
In Havana, 680 cases were reported, an incidence rate of 480.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the highest in the country.