Havana, Cuba: President Miguel Díaz-Canel today praised the powerful force of the scientific talent cultivated for 61 years, on the occasion of celebrating the Cuban Science Day.
“Cuba is already that future that Fidel Castro drew with his ideas about Cuban Science, in 1960?, the president wrote on Twitter, adding that the development of this sector in the Caribbean nation inspires and drives us every day.
In his message, Díaz-Canel referred to the phrase of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution who said that the future of our country must necessarily be a future of men of science.
Cuba is committed to achieving scientific and technological sovereignty, an especially important objective for the authorities of the nation in the midst of the complex international scenario due to Covid-19.
In this sense, the head of state recognized yesterday the importance of two innovative projects of national science in the face of the pandemic.
Through his Twitter account, the president mentioned the creation of diagnostics for the magnetic extraction of RNA with nanotechnology, which will allow the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In addition, Díaz-Canel shared another text from the national newspaper Granma in which the advances of the Island in the production of lung ventilators are exposed.
The nation was the first in the Latin American region to develop four vaccine candidates against Covid-19 (Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Mambisa and Abdala).
Every January 15, the largest of the Antilles celebrates Cuban Science Day, a date established in 1990.
That day in 1960, during the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Cuban Speleological Society, Fidel Castro gave a speech in which he outlined the bases of the policy of human formation, professional and scientific development of the young Revolution.
