Blockade: U.S. Company buys key lung ventilator manufacturing firms for COVID-19 and suspends sales to Cuba.
Cuba will not be able to acquire pulmonary ventilators from several of its usual suppliers as two firms manufacturing this medical equipment have been purchased by a US company. These devices are key elements in the care of serious and critical cases of COVID-19.
Message from Cuba’s Ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández
Things are always harder for Cuba. We Cubans don’t even get a break during a pandemic. When Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese electronics giant Alibaba and the foundation that bears his name announced to the world his intent to donate 500,000 COVID-19 rapid tests to the U.S. and a million masks, overlooking the xenophobic and racist slurs of the current Present, he had already done so for countries such as Japan, South Korea, Italy, Iran, and Spain. These were then considered to be the most at-risk countries.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
By Luis A. Montero Cabrera
Doctor of Science and Chair of the Scientific Council of the University of Havana; Honorary member and coordinator of natural and exact sciences at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba.
Cuban Interferon used against COVID-19
Posted on March 16, 2020
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
On March 13, the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland requested the Cuban authorities the granting of a berthing permit for the MS Braemar, from the Fred Olsen cruise lines, to berth at a Cuban port, with a small number of passengers affected by the novel coronavirus (SARS CoV 2/Covid-19), and their repatriation via airplane.