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      <h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuba Cannot Get Swiss Respirators Due to US Inhuman Blockade</h1>April 29, 2020</div>

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                                                <p>Journalist Laura 
Hunter published an article in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier 
denouncing that the companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronic Medical 
Systems AG were ordered not to sell high-tech respirators to Cuba.</p>                                                    
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
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 <p><em><strong>RELATED:</strong></em></p> 
 <p><a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Prevents-Cuba-From-Acquiring-Pharmaceutical-Raw-Materials-20200429-0007.html" target="_blank"><em><strong>US Prevents Cuba From Acquiring Pharmaceutical Raw Materials</strong></em></a></p> 
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<p>Claiming that they do not wish to subvert the U.S. unilateral 
sanctions, those companies, which were acquired by Vyaire Medical two 
years ago, refused to deliver their products, as the Cuban Foreign 
Minister confirmed.</p>                                                   
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                <p>"The U.S. blockade 
against Cuba ignores all moral limits. At this point, nothing Washington
 does to attack the Island should surprise us. However, the crime of 
Swiss respirators opens a chapter of unprecedented cruelty," journalist 
Waldo Mendiluza said from France.</p>                                                     
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                <p>Despite all the 
adversities, Cuba's Health Ministry Wednesday reported that the number 
of COVID-19-related deaths remains at 58 since no person has died from 
this disease over the last 24 hours in a country that has 1,467 positive
 cases so far.</p>                                                        
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                 
<p>Authorities also reported that 25 of the 30 new cases registered on 
the last day are in Havana, a city concentrating more than a third of 
the total number of confirmed patients.</p>                                                       
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                <p>In the group of newly
 infected citizens, 11 people emerged as asymptomatic when the COVID-19 
test was performed, the Health Ministry Epidemiology director 
Francisco Duran reported, adding that the source of contagion has 
not been specified even in 7 cases.</p>                                                 
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                <p>Cuba has carried out 
45,344 PCR tests and has achieved the recovery of 44 percent of the 
COVID-19 patients, 42 of whom were discharged on the last day while 775 
people remain in a stable situation. </p>                                                        
                                        
                                                                
                                            
                                                 
                                                
                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                        
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