Hundreds of people in Florida, USA, flocked to the beaches this weekend after the governor gave the green light to open some spas despite the critical epidemiological situation in that nation, which exceeds 26,000 confirmed cases in that state.
The Americas closed this week with more than 640,000 cases and 25,000 deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in what can be described as the toughest week for the region.
Diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Angola, Bolivia and other countries, Brazilian politicians, representatives of social and solidarity movements and Cuban residents in Brazil on Thursday celebrated the 66th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Garrison, the Day of the National Rebelliousness.
Cuba sent experienced doctors to Brazil and it was an emergency response to the shortage of professionals in the interior of the country, the representative of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Joaquin Molina, said on Thursday.
A group of 204 Cuban health collaborators who worked on Brazil”s More Doctors program returned to the island on Friday as a result of the hostile attitude of the South American country”s president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro.
With the arrival on Monday of 204 Cuban doctors from Brazil, about 1,500 medical collaborators have returned home in recent days after participating in the More Doctors Program, an initiative that was affected by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro”s hostility
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) on Monday defended the integrity of the Cuban doctors who are working in Brazil and condemned the derogatory statements by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro about them.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted on Saturday the efforts of Cuban doctors in Brazil through a message shared on his official Twitter account, @DiazCanelB.
Cuban health specialists on Thursday supported the country’s decision to withdraw its doctors from Brazil facing the contemptuous and threatening statements against them made by President-elect of that South American nation, Jair Bolsonaro.
The presidential candidate of the coalition The People Happy Again, Fernando Haddad, is already consolidated as the second in the intention to vote for next October”s elections in Brazil, a new poll confirmed today, in less than a week after his nomination.
