To Include Cuba on the Special Watch List is an egregious lapse of judgment on the part of the US Government
Reverend Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, adressed a letter to the Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo to express concern that Cuba has been and continues to be listed on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s “Special Watch List”.
Cuba reports nine new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, July 30 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported nine new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 2,597 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Thursday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Wednesday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. This is the 18th day there have been no deaths from the virus in Cuba. A total of 87 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
Medical brigades from #Cuba that have assisted they fight vs COVID-19 overseas
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs makes this infographic map available to readers with updated data from public sources, about the “Henry Reeve” Medical Brigades sent from #Cuba to contain Covid-19 in many countries of the world.
Doctors who worked in St. Vincent and the Grenadines arrives back to Cuba
Havana, July 17, 2020 -- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel welcomed the brigade of health professionals that collaborated in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Upon the arrival of this group in the early hours of the morning at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, its members received via video the gratitude and recognition of the head of state on behalf of Army General Raúl Castro, the Cuban Communist Party and the population.
Statement by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Global Leaders’s Day of the International Labor Organization Global Summit on COVID-19 and the world of work.
Mr. Director General;
Excellencies, Heads of State and Government;
I feel honored to bring into this virtual Summit the voice of Cuba, a small developing country, where workers in power struggle on a daily basis to achieve all the justice, which was the dream and commitment of the founding fathers of our nation.
Today, as has been always the case throughout the last 61 years, Cuba is sharing the new and serious challenges facing the International Labor Organization as it enters into its second century of its existence.