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Cuban doctors head to Italy to join battle against coronavirus

Published March 22, 2020
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Cuba has said it dispatched a 52-strong brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy.

Cuban doctors hold an image of late Cuban President Fidel Castro during a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Havana, Cuba. —Reuters
Cuban doctors hold an image of late Cuban President Fidel Castro during a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Havana, Cuba. —Reuters

This is the sixth medical brigade Cuba has sent in recent days to combat the spread of the new disease abroad.

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