{"id":1016,"date":"2020-03-16T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","slug":"cuba-gives-permission-for-cruise-ship-carrying-covid-19-patients-to-dock-citing-solidarity-and-health-as-a-human-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-gives-permission-for-cruise-ship-carrying-covid-19-patients-to-dock-citing-solidarity-and-health-as-a-human-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba gives permission for cruise ship carrying COVID-19 patients to dock citing solidarity and health as a human right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cruise-covid-19.jpg?resize=634%2C423\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cruise-covid-19.jpg?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cruise-covid-19.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested \npositive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away \nby other countries. The MS Braemar, which is carrying six hundred \npassengers, most of whom are British, had been stranded at sea for two \ndays while trying to find a country which would allow it to dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several other countries and refused permission, causing the British \ngovernment to request help from Cuba. The Cuban Ministry of Foreign \nAffairs released a statement today which said that &#8220;Given the urgency of\n the situation and the risk to the life of sick people, the Cuban \ngovernment has decided to allow the docking of this ship&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The  passengers will repatriated by air to the UK and their home countries.  The Cuban government said: &#8220;These are times of solidarity, of  understanding health as a human right, of reinforcing international  cooperation to face our common challenges, values that are inherent in  the humanistic practice of the Revolution and of our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.cubadebate.cu\/news\/2020\/03\/16\/cuba-will-accept-british-cruise-ship-ms-braemar\/\">http:\/\/en.cubadebate.cu\/news\/2020\/03\/16\/cuba-will-accept-british-cruise-ship-ms-braemar\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-gives-permission-for-cruise-ship-carrying-covid-19-patients-to-dock-citing-solidarity-and-health-as-a-human-right\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/what-coronavirus-revealed-about-national-mindsets-across-the-world-and-how-cuba-came-out-on-top\/","url_meta":{"origin":1016,"position":0},"title":"What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world \u2014 and how Cuba came out on top","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"British cruise ship MS Braemar docks in Cuban port. 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