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</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuban Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez Denounces Media Blackout on Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against Covid-19</h1>
September 5, 2020
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><p>The
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, today denounced
the silence of the international media about the contributions of his
country’s scientists to the fight against Covid-19.</p><p>In his Twitter
account, the Chancellor stressed that, even when the island’s men and
women of science “share their progress with the world, show protocols
against the pandemic and the results of their own vaccine candidate,”
little media coverage reflects those achievements, he said to Prensa
Latina.</p><p>“The
Cuba agenda is partial,” added the head of the Caribbean nation’s
diplomacy, and he also pointed out that ignoring or censoring Cuban
successes is part of the media blockade that is being imposed on the
island.</p><p>The largest of the Antilles, in this period of
confrontation with the pandemic, created a pulmonary ventilator,
incorporated drugs such as Jusvinza (CIGB 258) and Itolizumab to
therapeutic protocols for Covid-19 patients, with good results, and also
has a vaccine candidate in clinical trials, named Sovereign 01.</p><p>The
latter achievement, however, was tempered by the closure of the Google
accounts of the Tv show “La Mesa Redonda” and the Cubavisión
Internacional channel, including their profiles on YouTube, where the
explanations of the scientists would be posted.</p><p>Recently,
directors of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, the center developing
Soberana 01, presented the progress of this proposal to the World and
Pan-American Health Organization (WHO / PAHO).</p><p>Cuban specialists
have also shared their knowledge and results, via videoconference, with
health personnel from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and
Oceania.</p><p>The day before, President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a
meeting with experts and scientists involved in confronting the
pandemic, which he classified as useful and essential for
decision-making.</p><p>According to the website of the Cuban Presidency,
this is the president’s 23rd exchange with the specialists, in which
the treatment protocols, the creation of their own diagnostic equipment
and materials, as well as the prognoses in the evolution of the disease
have been evaluated.</p><p><em>Featured image: file photo, courtesy of Directorio Cubano.</em></p><p><a href="https://ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/mundo/denuncian-silencio-mediatico-sobre-aportes-de-cuba-contra-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">(Ultimas Noticias)</a></p><p>Translation: OT/JRE/EF</p><div><p><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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