107 people from Las tunas are in isolation centers

One hundred and seven people remained until Friday in the isolation centers that operate in Las Tunas against Covid-19. Of these, 33 are in Los Cocos, 32 in Los Caciques (main municipality), 39 in Aguada de Vázquez (Puerto Padre) and three remain in the municipality of Colombia.

First local transmission event in the country of COVID-19The Minister of Public Health José Angel Portal Miranda announced Friday that "the first local transmission event in the country of COVID-19 was reported in the municipality of Cárdenas, in the province of Matanzas.

The assistance to the elderly is a priority in Cuba

The provincial director of Labor and Social Security in Las Tunas, Oleidis Saucedo Licea, confirmed to the press the sustained work to protect the lives of more than 600 people who are served by Social Assistance in this territory.

Cuba has  already sent medical  brigades to some ten countries to help fight COVID-19

A total of 25 health specialists from Las Tunas, belonging to the Henry Reeve brigade, traveled to the capital to join the Cuban medical brigade that could go to Argentina in April to combat the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, causing the Covid-19 disease and became a global pandemic since March 11.

New SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

Reinforcing house-to-house work with the support of mass organizations and comply with the strategies designed to deal with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was the call of Manuel Pérez Gallego, president of the Provincial Defense Council (CDP) in Las Tunas.