September 6, 2020
Cuba shuts some schools after small COVID-19 outbreak
A
small outbreak of COVID-19 cases has prompted authorities to reclose schools in
a central Cuban province only a week after they opened.
Ciego de Avila schools director Bárbara Rodríguez
said 75 of the province’s 90 schools would return to televised teaching on
Monday. Students had returned to classrooms only on September1 after a
six-month break.
The province has reported 30 new infections with the
new coronavirus over the past 15 days. Cuba as a whole has reported 4,309
infections and 100 deaths from the disease since March.
The largest outbreak has been in the capital,
Havana, which remains under a night-time curfew.
Cuba’s baseball season is scheduled to start on
Saturday before stadiums without spectators.
