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Cuba Sends Doctors, Nurses to the Caribbean to Fight COVID-19

Monday, 30th March 2020

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has ratified Cuba’s dedication to the Caribbean international locations in fighting and controlling the radical coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2.

On his Twitter account, the top of Cuban diplomacy knowledgeable on Saturday approximately the appearance of a contingent of Cuban doctors in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

‘Cuban fitness specialists arrive in Saint Kitts and Nevis to enrol in the efforts to combat #COVID19. #Cuba ratifies its dedication to the Caribbean nations, to which we're united by means of historical ties of brotherhood and solidarity,’ Rodriguez wrote.

A brigade of 34 Cuban Dr and nurses travelled to the neighbouring united states on Saturday to sign up for the efforts to fight the disease caused by SARS-Cov-2.

With this group, about 800 fitness collaborators are running to fight the pandemic abroad, in step with Santiago Badia, secretary-widespread of the National Union of Health Workers.

About 45 international locations have requested assist from Cuba to address Covid-19, Badia stated recently.

The team is made up of doctors and nursing graduates, normally members of the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade in opposition to Disasters and Serious Epidemics, created by means of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

So far, Cuba has sent medical experts to 12 nations, along with Italy, Belize, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Saint Lucia, Grenada and Dominica.