More than 40 companies and institutions in China prepared donations of medical supplies to help Cuba strengthen its capacity to confront COVID-19.

A second Cuban medical brigade, made up of 38 health professionals, departed on Sunday for Piedmont, Italy, to help combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the most affected regions of the European country.

For the first time, a Cuban medical brigade will arrive in the Republic of Togo, in Africa, after the government of that country requested the presence of Cuban health professionals to combat COVID-19.

The United Nations, through its Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, governments and personalities of the world are demanding the lifting of the unilateral coercive measures of the United States, before the COVID-19.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla rejected on Wednesday the statement by a senior Pentagon official quoted by the U.S. magazine Newsweeek about an alleged drug trafficking operation between Cuba and Venezuela.

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), called for strengthening international cooperation to tackle the new coronavirus pandemic.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, ratified this Thursday the island's full support to the World Health Organization (WHO by its Spanish acronym) and its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as well as to the work of the Organization in the fight against COVID-19.

Nicaragua received an additional 8,000 doses of Interferon Alpha 2B, produced by the Cuban Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), the government of that Central American nation confirmed in a press release.

The United Nations General Assembly recently approved the Resolution entitled "Global solidarity to fight the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)", which was proposed by a group of countries, including Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and co-sponsored by Cuba.
The text, which was adopted by tacit consensus, is a call for unity, solidarity and international cooperation to tackle this pandemic, which has caused considerable loss of life and suffering, reports the Cubaminrex website.