The use of the facemask is mandatory in Las Tunas  province

The Las Tunas Provincial Defense Council reiterated that the use of the facemask is mandatory in all public spaces in the territory, regardless of the existence or not of crowds of people.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Although since last July 20, Las Tunas along with 12 other provinces passed to the third phase within the post-COVID-19 recovery, the authorities reaffirmed the validity of this requirement given the characteristics of SARS -CoV-2, a virus that can be transmitted by an asymptomatic carrier.

In August, the province saw its chain of more than 80 consecutive days without autochthonous cases of COVID-19 broken. Consequently, it deploys all its efforts to keep under control a family outbreak detected in the Buena Vista district of the provincial capital. In this regard, Dr. Viviana Gutiérrez Rodríguez, provincial director of Health, reported on Monday that sanitation and epidemiological surveillance actions continue in several blocks assigned to the doctors’ offices 5, 7 and 8 of the health area of the Gustavo Aldereguía polyclinic. In recent days, she said, the active inquiry has already reached more than 85 percent of the resident population there.

During the weekend, the cleaning and vigilance by the forces of public order and comprehensive inspection was also increased in the busiest areas of Buena Vista, where it was decreed the closure of all food and beverage outlets from 6:00 pm.