RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Cuba has not reported any deaths from the coronavirus for the past nine days, Francisco Durán, national director of epidemiology at the country’s Ministry of Public Health, said yesterday.
Durán also announced that Cuba has recorded only nine cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
Over the weekend, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the virus was “under control” in Cuba and that the government would soon announce measures to gradually reopen the island.
Since the outbreak, Cuban authorities have shut down virtually all international travel into and out of the country, made it compulsory to wear a face mask in public and demanded that all coronavirus patients go into home quarantine or be isolated in government-run hospitals.
Cuba now records a cumulative 2,200 cases of coronavirus and 83 deaths since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.