HAVANA.- A Cuba's medical brigade travelled to Mexico at the request of that country's government to fight against COVID-19, Cuba's healthcare authorities reported.

Dr. Francisco Duran, national director of Epidemiology at the Public Health Ministry, noted that the group went to Mexico to join the local efforts of containing the pandemic, which has caused 11,137 deaths in the Americas.

Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recognized the quality of Cuban medicine in a press release.

Currently, Cuba has health professionals in 16 countries (including Mexico now) to help facing the rapid and lethal spread of the new coronavirus across the world.