Even when the numbers related to COVID-19 are decreasing in Cuba, its government keeps on checking the epidemiological situation of the country on a daily basis and always bearing in mind that the guard must not be let down in this outright combat against the pandemic, which started in early March and has not come to an end yet. 

As usual on every afternoon, at the Revolution Palace, a meeting of the temporary work group for the prevention and control of coronavirus took place on Wednesday afternoon led by the President of Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.

As part of this type of meetings in which the organizations of the State's Central Administration that are involved in the fight against COVID-19 report to the President, the Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, informed about the measures enacted by the sector to continue providing services in the hard context posed by the pandemic.

According to him, work has been done to create capacities for the communication in hospitals and isolation facilities; he also said that they have been working on the use of digital platforms for the payment of services, on enabling apps for inquiries and self-inquiries about COVID-19, and on investigations about mobility and geo-referencing of COVID-19 cases.

“We have worked with the purpose of ensuring the vitality of the telecommunication network, since there has been a significant increase of telephone, radio and television traffic”. 

He also explained that some of the decisions that have been made are the following: the shortening of the work schedule in ETECSA and Correos de Cuba, Joven Club facilities remain closed to the public, they payment of telecommunication bills was postponed, and the use of the  Enzona and Transfermóvil platforms was encouraged.

In April, he detailed, 193 million pesos in CUP and CUC were paid through Transfermóvil, mainly because of transfers between accounts and payments of cooking gas, water, electricity and telephone bills; in additions to the payment of taxes to the National Tax Administration Office.

He pointed out that the most common opinions from the population are being monitored, especially those regarding the delivery of postal parcels to their homes, mobile telephony and data usage, data traffic problems, delays in the installation of new services or their transfers; also concerning the distribution of the press, especially in the Isle of  Youth, and the difficulties in relation to e-Commerce, "in which we must keep working on because it is here to stay and we have to finally solve all the problems it poses", he asserted. 

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