The team of the intensive care area of the Pediatric Cardiocentro “William Soler”, in Havana, has exhorted Cubans to stay home as a way to contain the progress of the coronavirus.
“The Cardiocentre Intensive Care Collective William Soler invites you to participate in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. Stay at home. (Help us) ”, a nurse from the hospital center has posted on Facebook with an emotional image, similar to those seen in other countries to promote support for health personnel, who are going through times of great tension globally.
In the two photos, the health personnel – all covered with masks – hold separate signs that say: “Stay home because we can’t” and “The virus moves with people. If people stop, the virus does too. Stay at home”.
In the comments after the publication, one of the nurses has specified that the baby that appears in the photos does not have coronavirus. “There are only cardiac patients here, it was only to show solidarity with our colleagues that if they are face to face with COVID-19,” he said.
However, an 18-month-old Cuban baby does appear as one of the patients of coronaviruses reported in Cuba. The minor, resident in Spain, arrived on the island with his mother on March 17, from Madrid.
Dr. Francisco Durán, director of Epidemiology of MINSAP, updated this Monday at a press conference that the evolution of the baby and its mother, just 19 years old, is favorable.
This Monday, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) announced that There are already 40 cases of coronavirus in Cuba.
Last Friday the government of Cuba announced the closure of borders due to the advance of the coronavirus, a measure that many Cubans had repeatedly requested, and which comes into effect this Tuesday, March 24.
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