Havana, Apr 24 Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said today that humanity demands an effective solution to Covid-19, a pandemic that affects the majority of the planet.
In his account of the social network Twitter, the Chancellor stressed that this is a crisis of multiple and devastating effects not only in the field of health, but also in the economy, international trade and society.
The Minister urged to unite international efforts and stressed that "together we can achieve it."
In a recent statement, the island's Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that the crisis caused by the new SARS Cov-2 coronavirus far exceeds the health field.
The text warned that the pandemic arrived and spread in a scenario previously characterized by overwhelming economic and social inequality between and within nations, with unprecedented migration and refugee flows.
He explained that the spread of the disease grows in a world in which the impressive advances in science and technology, particularly in health, are increasingly concentrated in the pharmaceutical business and the commercialization of medicine.
“Before the first patient was identified, there were 820 million hungry people in the world, 2.2 billion without potable water services, 4.2 billion without safely managed sanitation services, and 3.2 billion without basic facilities for washing hands ", indicated the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
(CubaMINREX – Prensa Latina)