Cuban drug among those used to fight coronavirus in China
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The recombinant Interferon alfa 2B antiviral (IFNrec), a leading biotechnology product in Cuba, is one of the medicines today used by China in treatments applied to patients with the 2019 coronavirus epidemic, according to a tweet from the Cuban embassy in the Asian country.
Cuba reinforces epidemiological surveillance to address risk of coronavirus
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Although there are no cases of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Cuba, the country is reinforcing its border epidemiological surveillance system to minimize the risk of spreading the disease, experts from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) announced on Monday in Havana.
Cuba without cases of coronavirus, health checks reinforced
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There are no cases of coronavirus in Cuba and border health checks are reinforced, the National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Francisco Duran, reported here today.
Holguín: Assisted Reproduction Center implements new techniques
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The Center for Assisted Reproduction in Holguín implements this year new techniques in order to maintain the sustainability in the number of pregnancies and increase the effectiveness rate in the services of high and low complexity.
Cuba develops second-generation vaccines for asthma
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Specialists at the National Biopreparation Center (BioCen), located in Bejucal, in the Cuban province of Mayabeque, are working to develop second-generation vaccines to treat asthma and reduce the number of shots.