Coronavirus updates: reports on Cuba’s international response to COVID-19
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 9 September 2020
Coronavirus update
Stories on Cuba’s international response to coronavirus
As of 1st September, Cuba itself had confirmed 4,065 cases of coronavirus, with 95 deaths and 3,395 people who had made full recoveries.
By the end of May, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign's emergency appeal had raised over £27,000. The money has already been transferred to Cuba to help buy ventilators, testing kits and personal protective equipment for use on the island.
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Further reading on Cuba's response at home and abroad:
- 18/08/2020 - Cuba to Start a Clinical Trial for a COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
- 15/07/2020 - Turin thanks Cuban medics in Italy
- 03/07/2020 - How Cuba and Uruguay are quashing coronavirus as neighbours struggle
- 15/06/2020 - Cuba announces post-Covid-19 recovery plan as cases fall
- 09/06/2020 - The homeland opens its heart
- 09/06/2020 - Closing in on all sides: Cuba nears declaring coronavirus victory
- 08/06/2020 - Cuba sets example with successful programme to contain coronavirus
- 05/06/2020 - Cuban medical brigades sent to help in Peru
- 29/05/2020 - Cuba Solidarity Campaign calls for brave Cuban medical brigades to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- 26/5/20 - Cuba Has Sent 2,000 Doctors and Nurses Overseas to Fight Covid-19
- 25/5/20 - Italy Recommends Cuban Medical Brigade for Nobel Peace Prize
- 18/5/20 - Cuba Develops Effective Peptide Against COVID-19
- 18/5/20 - Fifth day without deaths and COVID-19 infections in Cuba drop to nine
- 13/5/20 - With Castro-era biotech, Cuba seeks to compete in coronavirus treatment race
- 12/5/20 - Cuba begins mass testing for Covid-19 as new cases fall to fewer than 20 per day
- 11/5/20 - Mobilizing Primary Health Care: Cuba’s Powerful Weapon against COVID-19
- 10/5/20 - Cuba to Begin Mass-Scale COVID-19 Testing
- 6/5/20 - US Lawmakers Support Cuba in the Purchase of Medical Supplies
- 4/5/20 - Diaz-Canel: "If we had globalized solidarity as the market was globalized, the story would be different"
- 30/4/20 - Cuban doctors recommended for Nobel Prize in recognition of coronavirus efforts
- 30/4/20 - Lift Cuba embargo or risk many lives lost to COVID-19, UN rights experts warn US
- 30/4/20 - Cuba is Ready to Aid the U.S. in its Fight Against COVID-19.
- 28/4/20 - Cuba’s Unique Model of Medical Internationalism
- 27/4/20 - Emergency appeal for Cuba raises over £20,000 in first few days
- 27/4/20 - Cuba Develops First COVID-19 Tracking App
- 26/4/20 - Cuban Doctors Head to South Africa to Help Fight COVID-19
- 23/4/20 - New Cuban Medical Aid Brigade Arrives in St. Lucia
- 21/4/20 - Cuban drug to strengthen natural immunity in trial phase
- 20/4/20 - Argentina to Soon Welcome 200 Cuban Doctors for COVID-19 Fight
- 19/4/20 - Cuban doctors are the world’s heroes — their nation needs us now
- 19/4/20 - COVID-19 Emergency Appeal for Cuba
- 16/4/20 - Cuba Calls for International Cooperation to Combat COVID-19
- 15/4/20 - PRESS RELEASE: British MPs call for US blockade to be suspended during coronavirus pandemic
- 15/4/20 - Over 50 MPs call on government to oppose US blockade of Cuba
- 15/4/20 - Coronavirus response: why Cuba is such an interesting case
- 14/4/20 - Cuba shares what it has
- 13/4/20 - U.S. company buys ventilator supplier and cancels shipments to Cuba citing blockade
- 11/4/20 - Cuban-trained Doctor Helps Mobilize Pandemic Response in Her South Bronx Community
- 9/4/20 - 13,000 people from 126 different countries sign open letter calling for the end of the US blockade of Cuba.
- 8/4/20 - Contribution from China to support Cuban fight against COVID-19
- 7/4/20 - UK thanks Cuba for ‘great gesture of solidarity’ in rescuing passengers from coronavirus cruise ship
- 5/5/20 - Inspirational internationalism
- 3/4/30 - 32 British MPs sign Open Letter calling on UK Government to take action on US blockade of Cuba
- 3/4/20 - US blocks medical aid to Cuba in show of ‘wild west brutality’
- 2/4/20 - ‘Criminal blockade’: Cuba outraged as delivery of Covid-19 aid from Alibaba chief aborted ‘at the last minute’ due to US sanctions
- 27/3/20 - US pressures countries to reject Cuban aid during coronavirus pandemic
- 26/3/20 - Cuba protests at offensive US statement Cuban doctors fighting COVID-19
- 26/3/20 - Corbyn praises Cuba’s ‘inspirational’ coronavirus efforts – part of its longstanding medical solidarity around the world
- 26/3/20 - COVID-19 gives the lie to global health expertise
- 25/3/20 - Cuba welcomes UN demand to suspend sanctions in the face of Covid-19
- 23/3/20 - Amid coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them
- 23/3/20 - Lula: The Cuban people show the world an example of solidarity
- 23/3/20 - The history of interferon in Cuba, in use today to treat Covid-19
- 22/3/20 - Cuban doctors head to Italy to battle coronavirus
- 21/3/20 - Cuba’s welcome to stricken cruise ship reflects a long pattern of global humanitarian commitment
- 21/3/20 - Cuba sends 144 health workers to Jamaica
- 18/3/20 - What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top
- 17/30/20 - PRESS RELEASE: Dominic Raab thanks Cuba for coronavirus assistance
- 16/3/20 - CNN - Cuba is repurposing factories to produce face masks
- 16/3/20 - Cuba gives permission for cruise ship carrying COVID-19 patients to dock citing solidarity and health as a human right
- 15/3/20 - BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19
- 14/2/20 - Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus
