Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Foreign Minister of Cuba. Photo: Cubadebate.
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The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, thanked the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) this Sunday for the donation of 800 thousand syringes with needles to face Covid-19.
Through his official Twitter account, the diplomat expressed his gratitude to the intergovernmental mechanism, with Mexico as president pro tempore, for solidarity as part of the regional plan to confront the pandemic.
“Today more than ever the joint cooperation of Celac is imposed,” wrote the head of Cuban diplomacy.
The shipment to the Caribbean nation is in addition to the deliveries of mechanical ventilators and vaccines to other countries contained in the strategy of that integrationist bloc to counteract the impact of the health emergency.
Cuba is experiencing the third outbreak of Covid-19, and the day before reported 6,662 new people diagnosed with the disease, while it maintains 43,569 confirmed active.
The Caribbean nation has three immunization schemes against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which exceed the limit imposed by the World Health Organization (50 percent) to be declared vaccines.
The territory is advancing in the process of inoculation of its population, and to date they have received at least one dose of three million 282 thousand 912 people.
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