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Havana, April 7 A Cuba’s medical brigade travelled to Mexico at the request of that country’s government to fight against Covid-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, reported this Tuesday Cuba’s healthcare authorities.
Doctor Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology of the Public Health Ministry, set out that the group of healthcare professionals went to Mexico to join the local efforts of containing Covid-19, which has caused 11,137 deaths in the region of the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on his morning press conference in the National Palace, recognized the quality of Cuban medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Cuba has experts in 15 countries (16 counting Mexico now) in the face of the rapid and lethal spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the whole world, amounting to 244,424 confirmed cases and 68,976 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Havana, April 7 A Cuba’s medical brigade travelled to Mexico at the request of that country’s government to fight against Covid-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":1264,"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-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5324,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/for-the-sake-of-global-health-the-us-must-stop-lying-about-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":1263,"position":0},"title":"For the Sake of Global Health the US Must Stop Lying about Cuba","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Today a People\u2019s Peace Prize was awarded to Cuba\u2019s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade \u2014 not the Nobel Peace Prize, although more than 100 organizations and 40,000 individuals from the U.S. alone supported the Henry Reeve Brigade\u2019s nomination. 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