28 Jul 2021 The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH), a Spain-based advocacy group, accused the Communist Party of Cuba on Tuesday of engaging in “massive occultation of information” regarding the escalating coronavirus pandemic. OCDH officials suggested that the true death toll of coronavirus cases in Cuba could be as much as triple the official government number. Cuba has diagnosed nearly 350,000 cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began as of Wednesday and nearly 2,500 deaths. Its rates have spiked dramatically in the past month, however, peaking on Tuesday with 9,323 cases documented in a single day, according to the state propaganda outlet Juventud Rebelde. The government has not published statistics for Wednesday at press time. Human rights experts have repeatedly warned against taking Cuban regime statistics at face value, however, given the regime’s history of falsifying medical data, most notoriously reclassifying infant deaths as “abortions” to proclaim its success in lowering infant mortality rates.