Madame Chair,
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the grave problems and colossal challenges human kind was already faced with and exposed new threats, including the frailty of health care systems. The promotion, protection and respect of the right to health are particularly relevant in the current context.
In Cuba, the existence of a free-of-charge, high-quality and universal-coverage health care system guarantees the right to health of all Cubans and has allowed us to tackle the pandemic with positive results. Nowadays we have four vaccine candidates against COVID-19, each at a different phase of clinical trials, which are the result of the development of Cuban science and the hard work of our scientists. We expect to be able to immunize the entire Cuban population this year.
Madam Chair,
The pandemic has triggered a serious economic and social crisis. Inequalities, hunger and discrimination are growing exponentially in a world that is already burdened by an unjust and antidemocratic international order and the application of ruthless neoliberalism, which has a stronger impact on the most vulnerable and turns their most basic rights into a wild fancy.
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