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April 23, 2020

Cuba Sends Doctors to Honduras; Mexico Forces Deportees to Traverse "Disinfection Tunnels"
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At the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican authorities are forcing people
recently deported from the U.S. to walk through "disinfection tunnels"
upon their arrival. Recently there was a large coronavirus outbreak at a
shelter in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, after a recently
deported person arrived from the U.S. without knowing he was a carrier
of COVID-19. Mexico has over 10,000 cases and a death toll of nearly
1,000 people.

In Honduras, Cuba has dispatched another medical brigade to help the
country's fragile health system cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
COVID-19 cases in Honduras now top 500, leaving hospitals with already
weak infrastructure, scarce medicines and medical staff completely
overwhelmed.


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