Ministry of Public Health reports 67 persons infected and the country’s second death
Havana, March 26, 2020.- Francisco Durán, director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, reported in a press conference that the 45-year-old Russian citizen hospitalized in Cuba, had died from complications associated with Covid-19 and other chronic conditions, in this case a history of Type II diabetes mellitus, despite a concerted effort on the part of a team of doctors.
Of the 67 patients diagnosed with the disease, 64 remain hospitalized, including two in critical condition.
Speech delivered by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the First Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health of the Association of Caribbean States on Covid-19 held by Video Conference.
Excellencies: Allow me to mention that it has been thanks to a technical miracle and the support of the Secretariat that Cuba has been able to participate in this video-conference. It so happens that the website that hosts the platform of the Association, through which all participants are able to connect to this important meeting, has denied access to Cuba for reasons of the blockade imposed by the United States against our country.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION: "JOSE MART: WITH GREECE IN THE HEART" IN TWO STATIONS OF THE METRO OF ATHENS
Athens 13 March. A photographic exhibition illustrating the love and admiration of Cuba's National Hero, José Martí, towards Greece was opened to the public this morning at two Athens Metro stations. The exhibition is called "José Martí with Greece in the Heart", with photos of the counselor and consul of the Embassy of Cuba in Greece José Oriol Marrero Martinez and texts in Spanish and Greek, from the book of the Counselor, about what Martí has written about those places in Greece that is in the photos.
Cuba to receive British cruise ship MS Braemar
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba.
Meeting of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cuba at the Cuban Embassy in Athens.
Athens, March 11. It took place at the Embassy of Cuba in Athens, a friendly meeting between members of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cuba in the Greek Parliament, Ambassador Zelmys María Dominguez Cortina and the counselor of the Embassy of Cuba in Greece José Oriol Marrero Martinez.