Cuban health professionals awarded in Italy
Rome, Jul 13, 2020.- The presidency of the Piedmont Regional Council on Monday granted an award for civil merits to the 38 Cuban health professionals who fought Covid-19 along with Italian colleagues in Turin for three months.
The recognition highlights 'the role the medical team has played during the 2020 health emergency, dedication and high professionalism lavished daily caring Piedmontese patients with Covid-19.'
Cuban doctors treat the most serious Covid-19 cases in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, jul 12, 2020.- Cuban health professionals have been helping to fight Covid-19 in Haiti since April, and so far they have attended some of the most complex cases of the disease that plagues the country today.
The twenty specialists of the Henry Reeve brigade work in the main treatment center of the national public health system, located in the central avenue of Delmas in the capital.
Cuba reports two new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, July 13, 2020-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were two new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,428 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Monday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up until 12 midnight Sunday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. A total of 87 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
Statement of the Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rogelio Sierra Díaz
- Cuba maintains status as guarantor in implementation of peace agreement between Colombia and the FARC-EP
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.