“I would like to send my regards to the Cuban people, fight misinformation on social media and do so from any scientific, medical, social and educational trench,” he told Prensa Latina via telephone.

Rojas, a Bribri indigenous person from Salitre, in Buenos Aires de Puntarenas, and one of the 10 members of native peoples from Costa Rica graduated of Medicine in Cuba, said that he is very happy and highly motivated over Cuba’s recent breakthroughs.

“From here, we have to acknowledge the huge effort made, not only by the Cuban government, but also its people, because we are living a historic epidemiological moment posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and this is not a simple thing to face,” Rojas, also a general surgeon graduated in Cuba in 2011, said.

In the world, a number of nations have faced a common problem differently, and that has taken us to where we stand today, he added.

I think that, thanks to the effort of the Cuban people, an educated and disciplined people, the country is currently going back to normal, with the resumption of the onsite school year, the reopening of tourism and the recovery of economic activity, he said.

He highlighted the joint effort between the Cuban government and the scientific community when implementing all the fight process against Covid-19 and stressed the creation of vaccines to assist people, who are the ones who suffer the impact of the different sides of this disease.

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