Cuban doctors boosting Covid-19 medical diplomacy

At the start of Togo's coronavirus outbreak, the small West African nation welcomed a team of 12 Cuban healthcare workers to tend to sufferers of the virus, boost its laboratory testing and help improve its hospital protocols.

While the virus was overwhelming healthcare systems worldwide, Cuba boasted a rare resource: a surplus of doctors trained in deploying abroad and battling infectious disease.

And it was willing to dispatch them all over the globe to nations requesting help.