All means of transport are halted

Representatives of transport regulatory institutions in this eastern Cuban province specified the measures taken to continue ensuring essential services in the face of the paralysis of passengers transportation decreed, in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

COVID-19 lethality rate is increasing

In the face of the tens of thousands of deaths left by the COVID-19 around the world, people are asking where this virus came from, like a biblical plague, which has spread to more than 180 countries.

A vehicle from the Cubataxi agency takes the samples to Santiago de cuba

More than 300 samples of nasopharyngeal exudates have already been processed at the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (CPHEM), in order to diagnose the presence or not of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which has become a global pandemic.

Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology

"Our State spares no resources to guarantee people's health," said Dr. Diego Julián Álvarez Dopazo, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, who contacted 26Digital to detail what happened around the 3-year-old girl's case, resident in this province, who was initially informed as positive for COVID-19 and then, after exceptional confirmatory tests it was concluded that it was negative.