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.

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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.

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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.

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From the web, Press Conference and virtue awards

The Union of Journalists of Cuba in Camagüey announced this Saturday on its profile on the social network Facebook the Carlos Bastidas awards and for the work of life Rolando Ramírez, which has been conferred since 2009, and this year Adolfo Silva deserved it.

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More than 96% of effectiveness has the use of the Jusvinza (CIGB 258) in the Red Zones of the territory. Its application is due to the participation of the province in the study protocol of this drug in the confrontation with COVID-19.

 With furniture and plumbing in El Encanto store in this city, the collection of freely convertible currency (MLC) for artisans began, through the alliance of the Cimex Corporation and the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets (FCBC).

Laboratory in Camagüey increases PCR processing

More than 900 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients are processed daily at the Camagüey Molecular Biology Laboratory. After the arrival of new equipment, its workers have managed to double the number of analyzes every 24 hours in just over a week.

Due to the extraordinary variety of disciplines in which our athletes have managed to reach Central American, Pan American, World and Olympic podiums, many specialists call Cuba "the Island of sports."

A few days ago, information spread from word of mouth and through the media: the Provincial Defense Council decided to close two important arteries of the city of Camagüey where a large number of people from all over the municipality go, and even from beyond. The objective was to limit the agglomeration and contain the spread of the epidemic, in days that have set record numbers of infections for the province.