Every beginning of the year, Cuba reports one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the continent, compared to those of developed countries. These figures reflect the Cuban State's political will and its health system to preserve the life of all pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants.

The international campaign to recognize Cuban doctors of the Henry Reeve brigade with the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize added on Thursday four other formal nominations in the United Kingdom.

Cuba on Thursday reported 217 new Covid-19-19 cases among 13,138 PCR tests made over the past 24 hours, a record number of new patients in one day since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country nine months ago.

 

Health authorities of the province of Holguín increase the protection measures of the population in the face of the increase in new positive cases of COVID-19, mainly originated from the entry of travelers from abroad that may generate local transmission and make the epidemiological situation of the territory more complex.