The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, commented on his Twitter account on the increase to one million in the number of people killed by COVID-19 in the United States.
Regarding this increase, the President said that “it is a clear reflection of social inequality in the United States. The richest and most powerful country on earth is unable to protect its citizens like desperately blocked Cuba is doing.”
The United States reaches one million deaths from COVID-19. It is a clear expression of social inequality in the United States. The richest and most powerful country on earth is incapable of protecting its citizens the way blockaded Cuba is doing. pic.twitter.com/vU7Id2f8VD
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) March 25, 2022
The excess of deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has surpassed one million people since February, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited by the Los Angeles Times.
Currently, the United States is the country with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus, although the Cuban engineer José R. Oro, who lives in that country, said in an article published in Cubadebate: “There are no scientific ways, not even reasonable ways, to measure the scale and to measure the cruelty of that figure of a million dead, since there is none to measure that of a war».
According to the information offered by the media, the data used on deaths from COVID comes from Worldometer, a platform that provides real-time global population statistics and includes data at federal, state, and many county levels across the United States.
The number includes not only the so-called “51 Entities”, i.e. the 50 states and the District of Columbia (the capital Washington DC), but also 10 other entities such as Puerto Rico, Guam, Veterans Hospitals, the Navajo Nation, Virgin Island Americans; and Northern Mariana Islands.