Some 160 Cuban health workers, who are part of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent return on Monday from Mexico where they had been contributing to the fight against COVID-19.

Thousands of bulbs of the Covid-19 vaccines are being filled today at Cuban labs, after the beginning of Abdala vaccine production, the second vaccine to move to phase III.

From a conversation with his Kenyan counterpart, H.E. Mutahi Kagwe, José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health of Cuba, expressed that negotiations are continuing for the safe return to the Homeland of doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped in Kenya on April 12, 2019.

In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).