It almost became a daily ritual from the first minutes of the Cubavision channel 1 and 8 pm news. The presenters quickly give way to the national director of epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), Dr. Francisco Duran, whose press conference on the evolution of the coronavirus in Cuba is held every morning in Havana.
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Surgical mask on the face, white coat, Doctor Duran, epidemiologist since 1979, presents his assessment of the day in a way that is both simple and precise. Each new case of Covid-19 is described in detail. The epidemiologist specifies the origin of the patient, his place of residence and his state of health. Cuba has had 390 cases and eleven deaths since the start of the infection in mid-March.
Divided into brigades, these doctors and nurses have been traveling the world since 1963, the year when Fidel Castro sent a first medical contingent to AlgeriaFrancisco Duran's tone is calm, almost reassuring. "They (the authorities) still put in Cubans' heads that this virus was caused by foreigners," says Niurka, a former nurse. If the three
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