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.
The National Director of Epidemiology, of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported this Tuesday that 16 new cases were confirmed with Covid-19, for a total of 186 in Cuba.
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.
Cuba reported 139 Covid-19 cases, including 114 Cubans and 25 foreigners, Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal told a news conference on Sunday.
The National Director of Epidemiology, of the Ministry of Public Health, Francisco Duran, reported that 39 new cases were confirmed with COVID-19, for a total of in Cuba, and announced the death of 52-year-old Cuban citizen from Villa Clara, who had a history of diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure and chronic pneumopathy.
Next Monday Cuba will participate in a virtual ministerial meeting convened by UNESCO to coordinate responses from science to the pandemic, the Permanent Mission of the island to the organization confirmed.
The number of infected in Russia with the new Coronavirus amounts to 840, after 182 new cases were detected, while the government announced the total suspension of international flights.
