Blockades impeding primary healthcare against the citizenry of any country, more especially during Covid-19, is immoral. Cuba, Palestine, Iran to name a few.
Cubaminrex, 26 April 2020. Blockades impeding primary healthcare against the citizenry of any country, more especially during Covid-19, is immoral. Cuba, Palestine, Iran to name a few.
Infographic map. 21 “Henry Reeve” Medical Brigades sent to 20 nations to contain Covid-19
Cubaminrex, 26 April 2020. One thousand 238 Cuban health professionals, integrated into 21 “Henry Reeve” medical brigades, have left for 20 nations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East, in the midst of the pandemic, to help contain those affected territories the spread of a virus, which we already know, will be won only with cooperation and solidarity.
Cuban-American teacher Carlos Lazo sends letter to Trump asking for lifting of sanctions against Cuba.
Cubanews, 13 April 2020. The Cuban-American teacher Carlos Lazo, a veteran of the Iraq war, has addressed President Donald Trump directly to ask him to “extend a hand of solidarity” to the people of Cuba and lift the sanctions against the island at this time of crisis in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
South Africa donates supplies to Cuba for the fight against COVID-19.
Pretoria, April 23, 2020 (RHC)-- South Africa made the delivery of a donation of supplies to combat the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus in Cuba, an action that is part of the close political and historical relations between the two nations.
Coronavirus pandemic is becoming a human rights crisis, UN warns.
The Guardian, 24 April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic must not be used as a pretext for authoritarian states to trample over individual human rights, or repress the free flow of information, the UN secretary general António Guterres warned today in a fresh attempt to bring the UN’s influence to bear on the crisis. He said what had started as a public health emergency was rapidly turning into a human rights crisis.