Cuba’s national director of epidemiology, Francisco Durán, said Tuesday that 717 people have died so far this month in Cuba a heavy share of the 2,019 who have died in all.
Anxiety over that spread was one of the factors that fed into the wave of street protests that broke out across the country on July 11.
Durán said transmission is “very elevated” now, especially in the central provinces of Matanzas, Cienfuegos and Ciego de Avila, as well as in Guantanamo, to the east. There s also been a rise in Havana, the capital.
“Of course we are worried, because we see there is a high incidence in the population, above all in young children, said Yurizam Martínez, a 53-year-old nurse in Havana. “I feel affected psychologically because we have been working for more than a year and we still don t see the result we had hoped for. . But we have to keep on.”
Virus slams Cuba as it races to roll out its new vaccines
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Virus slams Cuba as it races to roll out its new vaccines
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