Cuba has dispatched a team 50 medical personnel to aid Italy as the death toll from the coronavirus reached 5,476 from 59,138 confirmed cases on Sunday.
The crisis has already claimed the lives of 18 doctors in Europe's worst-hit country, with Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reporting that 36 doctors, 15 graduate nurses and a logistics specialist from the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade have been sent to a field hospital in Crema in Lombardy to bolster local resources.
Italy has already closed all non-essential business as it ratchets up its lockdown measures and the number of deaths on Sunday fell to 651 from a high of 793 on Saturday.