The gradual reestablishment of public transportation services continues today, when the national circulation permits and the mobility between provinces of state and private vehicles will be eliminated.
The provisions of the Ministry of Transport in this regard are related to the manifest control of the COVID-19 pandemic and this Monday the body confirmed the deactivation of the restrictions on access control points to provincial territories.
Also the reestablishment of trips that involve more than one of those places, and gradually the interprovincial ones by bus, rail, catamaran to Isla de la Juventud with departures on Fridays, Sundays and Wednesdays and flights according to availability of aircraft.
The National Bus Company will implement its corresponding program, albeit in a reduced manner, and directed mainly to and from the provincial capitals and those municipalities with marked interconnection with the capital.
In turn, the transfer of people with medical discharges will once again be provided by buses, on the basis of reserving two capacities at each departure, as has operated under normal conditions, and the same will happen with national (Chinese) and medium distance trains.
The latter will operate every four days from Havana (and vice versa) to Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Bayamo – Manzanillo and Guantánamo at the usual times and established stops.
A daily departure from Havana to a different destination each day, while on that occasion another formation leaves from its territory to Havana.
Likewise, Last Minute sales will be restored in the designated areas in each station and terminal or in the facilities for such purposes, always in compliance with the conditions established by the sanitary protocols.
MITRANS officials announced on October 21 the beginning of the de-escalation process of existing regulations due to the attacks of the deadly disease of the new coronavirus, even when the United States government intensified its economic, financial and commercial blockade that causes so much damage to the Cuban family.
Only from April to December 2020 its effects on the transport sector exceed 43 million dollars and in the case of aviation it is the one with the greatest damage, since they exceed 28 million US dollars.
Regarding the capital, his Company indicated that the restrictions in the entry and exit control points of the province will be canceled, the confrontation schedules will be reestablished, and the links between Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque, both with auto equipment, motor or railway, as well as the promotion of operating licenses to private carriers.