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Coronavirus death toll in Cuba is already 100
Help us keep OnCuba alive With the two deaths reported today by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), the number of deaths due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Cuba has reached one hundred. The victims: an 85-year-old man residing in San Cristóbal municipality, Artemisa, and an 87-year-old woman, from Cotorro, Havana. The involution of both …
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What Can We Learn From Cuba? Medicare-for-All is a Beginning, Not the End Point
Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All as a final goal. However, it is not the final goal. It should be the first step in …
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Coronavirus curfew in Havana, Cuba – in pictures
Cuban authorities have launched a strict 15-day lockdown of Havana to try to stamp out the low-level but persistent spread of coronavirus. In addition to a curfew, most stores are barred from selling to shoppers from outside the immediate neighbourhood to prevent people from moving around the city Coronavirus – latest updates See all our …
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Cuba quiere producir más alimentos para reforzar su soberanía
Solo en América Latina y el Caribe 83,4 millones de personas están en riesgo de caer en condiciones de pobreza extrema y hambre este año, según un informe de la CEPAL y la FAO. La entrada Cuba quiere producir más alimentos para reforzar su soberanía se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.
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Fidel’s “Russian son” and the Cubans in the pandemic
His official name is Alexandr Seriogin, but he likes to be called Castro. This 57-year-old Russian claims to be Fidel’s son and feels a bit Cuban. With the pandemic, he learned that some of his “compatriots” from the island were in precarious situations and decided to honor his surname and the land of his alleged …
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COVID-19 adds three deaths in Cuba and new contagions amount to 61
Help us keep OnCuba alive In its first day under new restrictive measures to stop the advance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Havana continues to report most of the new contagions in Cuba, 46 yesterday, to which are added the three deaths of the day. The victims were a 65-year-old man, described as “homeless,” and two …
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Havana and its harsh confinement due to COVID-19 outbreaks
Havana is subject to the most restrictive measures imposed by the Cuban government for at least 15 days since the beginning of the pandemic, which include a curfew as of 7:00 p.m., the prohibition to leave the city and hefty fines for non-compliance. The authorities affirm that the rebound in coronavirus cases in the capital …
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The atypical return to the classrooms in Cuba
Except for Havana―the epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic on the island―and a few other towns, Cuba returned to the classrooms this Tuesday amid a second wave of coronavirus infections after more than six months of an unprecedented early closure. With a mandatory mask and received by health workers at the entrance, hundreds of thousands of …
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Cuba imposes Havana lockdown as coronavirus spreads
Cuba has successfully dealt with the pandemic outside of the capital, Havana, where new cases continue to be reported.
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Alexis Valdés: “Cubans need to learn to dialogue” (+ video)
His characters Nereida and Cristinito entertain hundreds of thousands of followers on his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages, where he publishes videos with puns, gibberish, double meanings and jokes that touch on current, very serious topics. Since the pandemic began, his contents have multiplied on the Internet: “Our mission was to amuse people and entertain, …
