The reduction of procedures is intended to promote the permanence of the citizenship at home

The directorates of Justice, Physical Planning and Housing in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas announced on Thursday the reduction of procedures in their respective dependencies, to promote the permanence of citizenship in their homes and thus prevent the spread of the COVID-19, which has reached worrying levels in recent days, to the point that the community transmission phase was declared for the entire country.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Luisbanis Ricardo Socarrás Velázquez, provincial director of Justice, reported that the Civil Registry units will only attend to the registration procedures for births, deaths, and certifications for pensions due to death. From the institutional point of view, services to collective law firms, the National Social Security Institute, and specialized law firms for benefits that take effect abroad will continue. The Central Registry of Sanctioned Persons will only guarantee actions to respond to the police and judicial authorities and the rest of the country.

The services provided by the network of notaries and property registries are suspended, except those related to foreign investment. Likewise, the authorized points of criminal records, acts of last will, and declarations of heirs are detained. Socarrás Velázquez clarified that notaries or registry matters will only be activated for urgencies or of special sensitivity cases, fully justified.

From the Provincial Directorate of Housing, the director Héctor Rodríguez Espinosa announced that the entity will continue, exclusively, with the processing of legal issues already initiated and pending notification. Likewise, the contractual relations with the construction organizations and all those involved in the investment process will continue to preserve the advancement of the country's construction program, both state and citizens who build their homes by their own efforts.

Since Monday, July 5, he stressed, direct attention to the population will be paralyzed in the paperwork, municipal and territorial offices. Also, all the procedures related to the General Housing Law and its complementary regulations, such as Article 64 on the cessation of coexistence, litigation, and claims of rights; Article 11 on the declaration of the illegal occupant; as well as the receipt of procedures covered by Agreement 8574.

The engineer Norge Rojas Cruz, provincial director of Physical Planning, specified that they will keep open matters concerning the documentation and adaptability of the dwellings foreseen in the construction schedule for the current year, either through a financial subsidy granted or by their own effort, both for new works as reconstructions or divisions, to grant them the certifications of habitable. These errands can only be done on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in the morning hours.

Concerning the procedures already requested, the interested parties will be informed through the media, so that they only go to the institution to pick the documents. “They can also keep abreast of the course of their management through the web address https://portal.dppf.ltu.co.cu. “The usual terms can be extended since we work with the minimum of personnel,” Rojas Cruz concluded.

Las Tunas closed June with 2,784 confirmed patients, of which 1,270 were notified that same month. Yesterday was the fourth time in the month in which the province “pulverized” its own record of more cases reported in one day and now it did so for the first time with more than 100. Also, for the second time in June, it was reported infected persons in the eight municipalities.

Several territories individually also set records of positives in one day: Las Tunas 76 (the previous one, 60, was on June 28); Jobabo, eight (the preceding one, six, dated from May 8); Puerto Padre at 11 (the previous one occurred on May 17, six); and Majibacoa, with 14 (it was five, reported on the distant March 24).