Cuba reports 31 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, August 4, 2020.- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 31 new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 2,701 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Tuesday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Monday night -- unfortunately, one patient died from the coronavirus. A total of 88 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
(Cubaminrex-RHC)
Cuba reports 11 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported eleven new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 2,608 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Friday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Thursday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. This is the 19th consecutive 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.
(Taken from RHC)
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”.
Cuban Foreign Minister highlights Telesur's counter-hegemonic role
Havana, Jul 24, 2020.- Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, today highlighted the counter-hegemonic role of Telesur, Caracas-based TV station launched 15 years ago.
"Telesur is that counter-hegemonic and integration platform that our America needs to promote a new communicational order", Rodríguez explained in his description on his Twitter account.
"The world urgently needs to hear the truth of those who are silenced by the big media, the oppressed, the truth of the nations", he added.
Cuba awards Friendship Medal to Harry Belafonte
Havana, July 24, 2020 -- The President of the Republic of Cuba, at the request of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), has awarded the Medal of Friendship to US musician, actor, social activist and friend of Cuba, Harry Belafonte, the Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Jose Ramon Cabañas, said on Twitter.
The Ambassador described Belafonte as an icon of American culture, a friend of the Island, and its Revolution, and thanked him for his solidarity and his art.