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.
To face Covid-19 we have in Cuba a well-conceived Prevention and Control Plan, we work as a team, and we observe the best international experiences, he Minister of Public Health, Jose Angel Portal said in the Round Table TV program.
The Haitian Government thanked Cuba on Wednesday for its assistance to fight the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, after eight Covid-19 cases were diagnosed in the country.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed on Tuesday on Twitter the statements of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, who demanded the suspension of the sanctions in the face of Covid-19.
Still in a pre-epidemic phase, the Cuban government has applied new measures to cut off the spread of the new coronavirus, which total 40 cases, all imported, on the island, although some have been cured and will be discharged shortly.
Cuban Finance and Prices Minister Meisi Bolaños said on Monday that formal and personal tax procedures at the Tax Administration Offices will be postponed until after April 30, in order to fight Covid-19.
Still in a pre-epidemic phase, the Cuban government is applying various measures to cut the spread of the coronavirus, which already totals 40 positive cases in Cuba.
Cuban Airport and Aeronautical Services Enterprise S.A. along with the Ministry of Public Health have been intensifying the measures to face the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, at Cuba’s air terminals, deputy director Liset Urgelles said.
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness representing his people, thanked yesterday the arrival in his country of a Cuban medical brigade to aid combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
