Cuba restricts traveler entry to curb rise in COVID-19 cases


  • World
  • Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020

HAVANA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cuba will reduce the entry of travelers from the United States and some Latin American and Caribbean countries starting on Jan. 1, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, health officials announced on Monday.

At a press conference, Francisco Duran Garcia, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (MINSAP), listed the nations included in the restriction as the United States, Mexico, Panama, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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