Havana, July 13 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the situation of increased cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of Florida is a consequence of veneration for the economy and disregard for human lives.

On his Twitter account, the foreign minister said that the record of 15,300 sick people in one day, established in that U.S. state, reflects the response of Donald Trump's administration to the pandemic.

With these figures, the U.S. state surpasses the statistics of New York, when on April 4th, it registered a daily peak of 12,274 people positive for the new coronavirus disease and became the center of the epidemic in the country.

Rodriguez also noted that it took Florida three months to reach 100,000 infections, but that in just two weeks it had surpassed 200,000 as a result of the economic opening without having the health emergency under control.

However, last Friday, President Trump visited the Southern Command in Miami, but instead of talking about the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak, he dedicated himself to seeking political support from Latinos, especially from the most extremist sectors of the Venezuelan and Cuban-American community.

The United States is determined to attack Cuba and its medical collaboration with other countries, even though the island shows control over the disease and has successfully contributed to the confrontation in some thirty nations.