Cuba’s Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez assured this Monday that blockade against the country is genocide, much more in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic.
The Puebla Group today denounced the blockade by the United States government on humanitarian aid that Chinese institutions and companies sent to Cuba, in a clear violation of human rights.
Cuba’s Ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira, reported this Wednesday that the U.S. economic, financial and commercial blockade prevents Alibaba Company from sending a donation to the island to combat Covid-19.
With a view to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Cuba, the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, in meeting with the representatives of all entities involved in the Epidemic Prevention and Control Plan, indicated an intensification of the planned measures.
Because of the contagion with the new coronavirus of several people in Camilo Cienfuegos community, at Consolacion del Sur municipality, the Defense Council and the Ministry of Public Health decreed the quarantine for the area.
The United States, which leads the number of coronavirus infections, has so far recorded 291 deaths, of which more than a quarter have occurred in New York State.
The President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted this Monday on Twitter the initiative of thousands of Cubans this Sunday to applaud the work of the health staff of Cuba and the world in the fight against the new Coronavirus.
The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the United States increased to more than 92 thousand, according to Johns Hopkins University, which collects official statistics.
