Apr 21, 2020, 17:41 pm
Cuba has blasted the continuing US economic blockade warning of a “violation of human rights” after a shipment of vital medical aid from China was stopped from reaching the country on Tuesday.
More than two million masks, 400,000 rapid diagnostic kits and 104 ventilators have been donated by China’s Alibaba Foundation to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The supplies were destined for 24 countries in the region including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Peru.
He thanked Alibaba Foundation founder Jack Ma for “for having thought” about the Cuban people and “for the efforts he is still making for his foundation’s contribution to finally arrive at its destination.”
More than 15,000 US citizens have signed a petition calling on US President Donald Trump to lift the Cuban embargo, which has been in place since 1962 in a bid to strangle the economy and oust the revolutionary government.
It is believed to have cost $1.2 billion per year in lost sales and exports, while the Cuban government estimates that the embargo has cost the island itself $753.69 billion over six decades.
But instead of relaxing tough US sanctions, Mr. Trump has ratcheted up hostilities calling on countries to reject support from Cuba, which has sent teams of medics across the world to help efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19.
More than 28,000 Cuban medical students have been going door to door to raise awareness about coronavirus and to screen the population.
Cuba has one of the highest doctor-to-patient ratios in the world with 82 for every 10,000 people.
It has sent medical teams and aid to more than 50 countries across the world including Italy and Iran which have seen thousands of deaths due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Quote:“Cuba denounces the fact that medical supplies from Alibaba Foundation to help combat Covid-19 have not arrived in the country due to the criminal US blockade against the island nation,” President Miguel Canel-Diaz blasted.
More than two million masks, 400,000 rapid diagnostic kits and 104 ventilators have been donated by China’s Alibaba Foundation to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The supplies were destined for 24 countries in the region including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Peru.
Quote:But they were blocked from the socialist island because of the crippling US embargo, in particular the Helms-Burton Act, according to Cuba’s ambassador to China, Miguel Pereira Hernandez.
“Things are getting ever more difficult for Cuba. Not even in times of a pandemic are Cubans allowed to breathe easily,” he said.
He thanked Alibaba Foundation founder Jack Ma for “for having thought” about the Cuban people and “for the efforts he is still making for his foundation’s contribution to finally arrive at its destination.”
More than 15,000 US citizens have signed a petition calling on US President Donald Trump to lift the Cuban embargo, which has been in place since 1962 in a bid to strangle the economy and oust the revolutionary government.
It is believed to have cost $1.2 billion per year in lost sales and exports, while the Cuban government estimates that the embargo has cost the island itself $753.69 billion over six decades.
But instead of relaxing tough US sanctions, Mr. Trump has ratcheted up hostilities calling on countries to reject support from Cuba, which has sent teams of medics across the world to help efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19.
More than 28,000 Cuban medical students have been going door to door to raise awareness about coronavirus and to screen the population.
Cuba has one of the highest doctor-to-patient ratios in the world with 82 for every 10,000 people.
It has sent medical teams and aid to more than 50 countries across the world including Italy and Iran which have seen thousands of deaths due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
http://misiones.minrex.gob.cu/en/articul...-brutality