Cubans celebrate no local transmission of COVID-19 for first time in four months


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  • Sunday, 19 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: People get hand sanitizer before entering a shop amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), in Havana, Cuba, July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba for the first time in 130 days on Sunday said there were no new domestic cases of COVID-19 as most of the country moved into the final phase of resuming normal activities with masks and social distancing.

Francisco Duran, head of epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, and who has updated the country daily on the pandemic, took off his mask during the national broadcast for only the second time deliver the good news.

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