Cuba calls on 28,000 medical students to fight coronavirus

The Cuban regime announced on Friday, the 20th, that it had invited about 28,000 medical students to participate in an "active research" in the cities of the island. The objective is to find suspected cases of Covid-19 , the disease caused by the new coronavirus , before the epidemic spreads throughout the Caribbean country.

The task delegated to university students consists of going from house to house to identify suspected cases and report to the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap). More than 1 million people were seen until Thursday 19 and "several major cases of acute respiratory infections" were detected, according to the head of the University of Medical Sciences in Havana, Jorge González, at a news conference.

"This activity does not consist of carrying out any exam or having any physical contact with people (...) We do not even guide the entrance to the houses, but keep the distance", emphasized González. The collected data is then handed over to Minsap, responsible for “conducting a thorough epidemiological investigation”.