The Provincial Defense Council of Las Tunas specified in its meeting on Monday that all control and confrontation measures against the COVID-19 are maintained and no one can contribute initiatives, while the country's leadership does not decide to enter the recovery stage.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Manuel Pérez Gallego, president of the management body, pointed out that the essential explanations of how the steps will gradually take place will be given little by little, in which the territory is preparing like the rest of the nation.

He asserted that the province has favorable conditions in the control of the epidemic to progressively return to normality, but the population must remain calm and discipline to avoid complications and pay attention to national guidelines.

The work to recover from the effects of the severe local storm that occurred on Saturday in the municipality of Puerto Padre was reported, in which 24 homes, mainly roofs, and around 152 hectares of crops with about 710 tons of products were damaged.

It was also added that progress continues in the plan for spring planting of various crops, although greater efforts must be made by the municipalities of Manatí, Majibacoa and Amancio, which are lagging behind.

Likewise, milk production and livestock, in general, begin to recover. Poultry farming remains stable, although it is necessary to rescue 70 percent of the containers that go to the markets; better compliance with the delivery plans of agricultural products to the population is needed to reduce shortages.

The distribution through the Domestic Trade stores network of lines derived from the food industries continues and the restart of brewing and the test phase of the manufacture of soft drinks, which will start in a beer bottle format, have been announced.

The rains of recent days have brought the reservoirs to 46 percent filling, which currently stores 161.5 million cubic meters.