Cuba reports two new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours
Havana, June 25, 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 2,321 positive cases across the island.
During his daily press briefing held Thursday morning, Dr. Duran said that over the past 24 hours -- up to 12 midnight Wednesday night -- fortunately, no patients died from the coronavirus. A total of 85 patients have died in Cuba over the past several months.
U.S. values are pretext for outrage, says Cuban Foreign Minister
Havana, Jun 24, 2020.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said today that the alleged promotion of U.S. values has historically been a pretext for attacking other nations.
The Foreign Minister stressed in his Twitter account that this way of acting in U.S. foreign policy has been used to defend the economic interests of that country and to establish its domination.
Havana continues to improve its health indicators to enter the first phase of recovery
Havana, June 24, 2020.- Havana is the only province in the country that has not passed to phase one of the recovery stage of COVID-19. A total of 102 confirmed active cases of the new coronavirus remain in the province, three of them yesterday, and most of them with a known source of infection; two open local transmission events; an incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants of 5.20 in the last 15 days and tending to decrease in that period; and a reproductive rate of the disease of 0.62.
Cuba in Honduras, rapid response to Covid-19
Tegucigalpa, Jun 23.- In his first internationalist experience, Cuban doctor Angel La O valued his integration into the rapid response teams, a piece of the health mechanism with which Honduras is currently facing the Coviod-19 pandemic.
Born 31 years ago in the eastern city of Bayamo, the doctor told Prensa Latina via whatsapp about his experiences in confronting the new coronavirus in Honduras, from his arrival on April 19 to date.
PM Says Region Will Pushback Against US Bill Targeting Cuban Healthcare Workers
June 22, 2020.- Prime Minister Gaston Browne says Antigua & Barbuda will lobby and pushback against a proposed US bill targeting Cuban healthcare workers.
He notes that the recent bill introduced by Republican Senator Rick Scott which classifies Cuba’s humanitarian assistance as “human trafficking” seeks to extend punitive measures against countries accepting this medical assistance.
“They will be literally punishing countries who utilize Cuba nurses and doctors,” he said.“We think that is extremely unfortunate,”the prime minister added.