Legally recognized religious institutions and fraternal associations will be able to resume their normal activities, although maintaining hygienic measures and physical distance, as government authorities in this eastern Cuban province reported Thursday.

Las Tunas.– “Taking into consideration the indications issued by the country's leadership and after our territories go through the first phase of recovery after the COVID-19, they can begin to carry out their activities, maintaining hygienic-sanitary measures,” said the Provincial Defense Council.

Since the Cuban government established stricter measures last March to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, meetings and other massive congregations of people have been suspended, including those of religious or fraternal nature.

Thursday, June 18, came into force in all the provinces of the country, except Havana and Matanzas, the easing of the guidelines from the improvement of the epidemiological situation. However, the Defense Council in this territory stressed that, as it happens in other activities and services that are reactivated, the religious and fraternal institutions "may meet in compliance with the distancing measures and the use of the protective mask."