Cuba continues fighting Covid-19. With 726 confirmed cases nation-wide, the Cuban Government continued this week the daily check-up of the Plan for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, particularly on the Mayabeque Provincial Defense Council and the transportation measures taken.

The meeting was held on this occasion through videoconference with the members of the temporary working group, as a preventive isolation measure.

The meeting’s agenda included a report on the measures implemented by the Ministry of Transport to confront the pandemic. As detailed by the minister, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, the main decisions focus on the suspension of interprovincial and public transport, as well as the interruption of the entry of aircraft and vessels to the Island.

The Minister specified it “does not currently include state vehicles that support economic activity, or private vehicles”, although he called for “making essential trips, using masks and maintaining zero overcrowding”.

At the start of the week, the work of the Mayabeque Provincial Defense Council was reviewed, a territory that to date has eight confirmed Coronavirus cases.

The Head of State particularly inquired about what has been done in the province to reduce queues, mainly in pharmacies; the conditions in the isolation centers; and the impact of the new transport and trade measures on greater social isolation in Mayabeque.

In the work meeting it was also known that in the country the territories with the highest incidence rate per inhabitant are Isla de la Juventud, Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Havana, Sancti Spíritus, Matanzas and Holguín. So far, said the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, there are 16 local transmission events of Covid-19 in 14 municipalities in nine provinces, in addition to Isla de la Juventud. ( www.presidencia.gob.cu)