REMARKS BY THE AFRICAN GROUP OF AMBASSADORS IN CUBA TO MARK THE AFRICA DAY 2020.
Since the Historical Revolution of 1959 that brought to power the Socialist Government of the Republic of Cuba under the able leadership of Commandant Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba has been a true friend of the Continent of Africa.
COMMEMORATION OF THE 57TH ANNIVERSARY OF AFRICA LIBERATION DAY 25TH MAY, 2020
Havana, May 22 -- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 8 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 1,916 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Friday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up to 12 midnight Thursday night -- unfortunately, one patient died from the coronavirus. A total of 81 patients have died from COVID-19 in Cuba over the past several months.
Henderson Pinder, chief of nursing services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados, highlighted the professionalism, dedication and work of the Cuban doctors who are helping that nation to fight COVID-19.
In statements to the local newspaper "Barbados Today" in the capital city of Bridgetown, Pinder said that the group of Cuban intensivists is already adapted and proves to be a great asset to the understaffed care system in Barbados' main medical facility.
Mia Motley takes the opportunity in her opening remarks of the 73rd World Health Assembly to greet the pioneers of Public Health in the Caribbean in these last decades who are true heroes for our peoples. We have been in contact with our neighbor in the Caribbean, Cuba, and we have received hundreds of doctors and nurses who have come to help us and also quotes ... "I take this opportunity to thank Cuba, the Cuban government for this laudable assistance that they have given us during the pandemic which has been palpable and has been very clear to our entire population”.