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Given the serious international epidemiological situation due to the high level of spread of the new coronavirus (SARS CoV 2 / Covid-19) and its accelerated expansion, the Cuban Consulates abroad have adopted measures aimed at protecting from possible contagion to Cubans who request services and Cuban officials who work in the country's consular offices abroad.
We are supportive and committed, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said this Thursday on social media, assessing the operation to transfer passengers from the MS Braeman cruise ship to Great Britain.
Cuba has the experience, technology, trained personnel and the reagent to deal with respiratory infections, and specifically to identify COVID-19 in suspected patients in a timely and accurate manner, affirmed Maria Guadalupe Guzman, head of the virology department at the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK).
More than 28,000 Cuban medical workers abroad are in good health and trained to deal with the COVID-19 disease, Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Main Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM by its Spanish acronym), said on Tuesday on the Mesa Redonda television show.
Two new wind farms are planned to be built on the north coast of Maisí, Cuba´s easternmost tip, with the aim of continuing to make progress in the use of renewable energy sources.
