Cuba’s public health minister said on Sunday efforts were under way to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from Covid-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record.
Minister Jose Angel Portal’s appearance on the state’s midday news broadcast came as a Delta-driven surge in coronavirus cases and deaths swamped some provincial health services.
Residents and some medical staff have taken to social media complaining of treatment in a land that prides itself for the quality of its free health system. Last week, official comments seemingly blaming health workers for collapsing health services provoked an unusual push back on social media with doctors blaming the government for a lack of supplies and poor management.
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