If I treat my interviewee today as you, as many journalists defend, it would not be credible even for me. Rafael Torres Betancourt is a friend of many years. Known as Filo, he inherited the charisma of his father and his decency, genetics increased by the maternal part, a classification very mine, but with which I am sure his family and friends, who are not few, will agree.

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As soon as you cross the main door of the Base Business Unit of the Wholesale Drug Marketing, located on the Central Highway (West), in the city of Camagüey, the environment that is breathed is of work, both in the offices, where the Drug distribution lists, such as in warehouses where loads of sanitary pads are prepared and products are packaged for community pharmacies.

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More than 475 educational institutions remain closed in the province due to the increase in positive cases of COVID-19. The passage to the phase of limited autochthonous transmission of several municipalities has forced to restructure the teaching processes and to look for alternatives so as not to stop learning.

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Twenty-two children in Camagüey remain admitted with active SARS-Cov 2

22 children remain admitted with active SARS-CoV 2 throughout the province, two of them under one year of age, and there are already 300 confirmed minors since the beginning of this year. All active patients are stable and with a favorable evolution, however, the data sets off alarms about the care of the smallest at home.

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-The First International Meeting of Civil Engineering students, convened by the Faculty of Construction of the University of Camagüey (UC) Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, will be held virtually from May 25 to 28 of the current year.

The university is very similar to these verses by the illustrious Mario Benedetti: “you always exist wherever / but you exist better where I love you”. In turbulent times of COVID-19, university students love it and do it in the most dissimilar missions, no matter how difficult they may seem, such as its historical leader José Antonio Echeverría, who gave his life for the Homeland on March 13.

Almost 100,000 PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests to detect the SARS-CoV 2 virus have been performed in Camagüey since a year ago, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed. In these last twelve months, the number of hospitalized people has exceeded 6,000, with a high cost of supplies and medical personnel.

Academics from Camagüey deserve the Sofía Kovalevskaya Award

Once again, the name of the University of Camagüey (UC) stands out at the national level in academic matters. On this occasion, it was the doctors of science Yailé Caballero Mota, director of International Relations and Olga Lidia Pérez González, professor and senior researcher, who became news when they were awarded by the Cuban Society of Mathematics and Computing.

Satellite was a small cat that, being mischievous and without anyone knowing how, climbed a huge tree from which he later did not know how to get down. One day and one night he kept meowing for help.