Although the coronavirus, the disease that has spread about 102,000 people in about 100 countries, continues to expand, pharmacies in Cuba are still short of medications.
According to a report by America TeVé, at the moment more than 70 medicines are missing in the country.
Among the most demanded and scarce in pharmacies are antibiotics such as Cephalexin, Ciprofloxacin or Amoxicillin, and many vitamins.
Several Cubans interviewed said they suffer from this shortage of medications and feel scared about the possibility of the coronavirus arriving in the country.
“Tell me, if he falls here,” said a Cuban.
“I would leave enough dead, because here we are not prepared for that,” said another.
Although there has been speculation about the possible presence of the coronavirus in Cuba, the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kourí” (IPK) He denied the rumors circulating on the Island on three cases of infected Cuban patients, from Italy.
Yesterday, two Italian citizens received medical discharge in the city of Santiago de Cuba, after they were negative for the coronavirus at the “Ambrosio Grillo” Surgical Clinical Hospital, where they were admitted.
For its part, the government of Cuba reiterated that in the country there is no person infected by the coronavirus, although President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that “there are threats and a danger to the country that we have a new coronavirus because of the situation in the Americas and the Caribbean.”
The Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, pointed out that international health control measures are being extreme at the points of entry into the territory, with the epidemiological observation of travelers from countries with COVID-19 transmission, the taking of temperature, isolation, survey of suspicious cases and referral to designated sites.
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