Despite two positive Covid-19 tests, the death certificate listed her cause of death as pulmonary thrombosis. Mr. López-Collazo believes that the Cuban government is systematically undercounting deaths to present a rosier picture than warranted. Statistics from the Cuban Health Ministry showed that about eight people died each day of the coronavirus in the city of Guantánamo in the first week of August. “If you go from eight deaths daily to 69 deaths daily, logically, no one was prepared,” Ihosvany Fernández, director of communal services in the province of Guantánamo, said in the TV interview. About a quarter of Cuba’s 11.3 million residents have received one of three vaccines that were developed and produced in the country.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2021 22:18 UTC