COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba

The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Cuba on 11 March 2020 when three Italian tourists tested positive for the virus

Quotes

Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize. ~ Medea Benjamin

The Cuban superpower was once again ready to help with doctors and equipment. ~ Noam Chomsky

• Did you know that of the nearly 1200 health professional Cubans involved in fighting COVID-19 around the world, more than half are women? Join the campaign to award them the Nobel Prize. https://cubanobel.org #CubaNobel
  • Medea Benjamin, Twitter (21 June 2020)

• Fantastic article by Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada, @JosefinaVidalF, about the 2 pandemics facing Cuba: COVID and the US embargo. #CubaNobel
  • Medea Benjamin, Twitter (22 June 2020)

• Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize. (27 June 2020)
  • Medea Benjamin, Twitter (27 June 2020)

• Maybe Sen. @marcorubio should stop sabotaging Cuba’s international health brigades fighting Covid around the world, and instead invite them to help stop the spread in his own state of Florida!
  • Medea Benjamin, Twitter (5 Jul 2020)

• The Cuban superpower was once again ready to help with doctors and equipment. Meanwhile, its U.S. neighbor was cutting back health aid to Yemen, where it had helped create the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and was using the opportunity of the devastating health crisis to tighten its cruel sanctions to ensure maximal suffering among its chosen enemies. Cuba is the most longstanding victim, back to the days of Kennedy's terrorist wars and economic strangulation, but miraculously has survived.
  • Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism (April 1, 2020) by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout

• Cooperated in Africa to fight Ebola, they made an important contribution to the health of the world.
  • Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, quoted in Top diplomatic negotiator in Cuba warns Trump: 'aggression doesn't work', Helen Yaffe in Havana and Jonathan Watts, The Guardian (17 Jan 2017)

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
• COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
• COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba
• COVID-19 pandemic in France
• COVID-19 pandemic in India
• COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
• COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom